14And 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.
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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. …
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-19)We may learn here, 1. That when public affairs are in a ferment violent proceedings do but make bad worse. Rough answers (such as Rehoboam here gave) do but stir up anger and bring oil to the flames. The pilot has need to steer steadily in a storm. Many have been driven to the mischief they did not intend by being too severely dealt with for what they did intend. 2. That, whatever the devices and…
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