Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
The advice
Bible References
The advice
2 Chronicles 22:4
He did evil in the sight of the Lord like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
Proverbs 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are just,
But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Daniel 6:7
All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions’ den.
My father
2 Chronicles 10:10
The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us.’ Thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins!
Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is like letting out water,
Soabandon the quarrel before it breaks out.
So
Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning;
Patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to you, O land, whose king is a lad and whose princes feast in the morning.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
James 4:1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?