1 Kings 12:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;

1 Kings 12:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 10:32
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-15)

Solomon had 1000 wives and concubines, yet we read but of one son he had to bear up his name, and he a fool. It is said (Hos. 4:10), They shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase. Sin is a bad way of building up a family. Rehoboam was the son of the wisest of men, yet did not inherit his father’s wisdom, and then it stood him in little stead to inherit his father’s throne. Neither wisdom nor…