1 Kings 12:13

Rehoboam answers the people harshly, rejecting the elders' wise advice. His pride seals the breach.

Cross-references · 18

• Prov 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
• Prov 10:32The lips of the righteous know what is fitting, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
• Eccl 10:12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.
• Prov 18:23The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.
• Prov 10:11The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
• 1 Sam 25:10–11But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.
• 1 Sam 20:10Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
• Gen 42:7And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
• 1 Kgs 20:6–11But about this time tomorrow I will send my servants to search your palace and the houses of your servants. They will seize and carry away all that is precious to you.’”
• Exod 10:28“Depart from me!” Pharaoh said to Moses. “Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die.”
• Gen 42:30“The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.
• Gen 16:6“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
• 2 Sam 19:43“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of Israel.
• Exod 5:2But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
• 1 Sam 20:30–31Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
• Judg 12:1–6Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”
• Prov 15:1A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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