1 Kings 12:14
"And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."
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- Exodus 5:5
"And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 12:10
"And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 5:16
"There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people."
Read in chapter → - James 3:14
"But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth."
Read in chapter → - Esther 1:16
"And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 19:11
"Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"
Read in chapter → - 2 Chronicles 22:4
"Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction."
Read in chapter → - Esther 2:2
"Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 16:18
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 12:5
"The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit."
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