Bible Verses Like 1 Kings 12:14

Exodus 1:14 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.   (Verses like Exodus 1:14)

Exodus 5:5-9 - And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.   (Verses like Exodus 5:5)

Exodus 5:16-18 - 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.But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.   (Verses like Exodus 5:16)

1 Kings 12:10-11 - 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.And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.   (Verses like 1 Kings 12:10)

2 Chronicles 22:4-5 - 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.He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.   (Verses like 2 Chronicles 22:4)

Esther 1:16-21 - 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.For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:   (Verses like Esther 1:16)

Esther 2:2-4 - Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.   (Verses like Esther 2:2)

Proverbs 12:5 - The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.   (Verses like Proverbs 12:5)

Proverbs 13:10 - Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.   (Verses like Proverbs 13:10)

Proverbs 16:18 - Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.   (Verses like Proverbs 16:18)

Proverbs 17:14 - The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.   (Verses like Proverbs 17:14)

Ecclesiastes 7:8 - Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.   (Verses like Ecclesiastes 7:8)

Isaiah 19:11-13 - 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?Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.   (Verses like Isaiah 19:11)

Daniel 6:7 - All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.   (Verses like Daniel 6:7)