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2 Chronicles 10:14
But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

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Judges 12:4
Then Jephthah got together all the men of Gilead and made war on Ephraim; and the men of Gilead overcame Ephraim.

Judges 12:5
And the Gileadites took the crossing-places of Jordan against the Ephraimites; and when any of the men of Ephraim who had gone in flight said, let me go over; the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And if he said, No;

Judges 12:6
Then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth, and was not able to say it in the right way; then they took him and put him to death at the crossing-places of Jordan; and at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites were put to death.

2 Samuel 19:43
And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 20:1
Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

2 Chronicles 13:17
And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

Psalms 64:3
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

Psalms 140:3
Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

Proverbs 16:27
A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.

Proverbs 26:20
Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.

Proverbs 26:21
Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.

Isaiah 30:27
See, the name of the Lord is coming from far, burning with his wrath, with thick smoke going up: his lips are full of passion, and his tongue is like a burning fire:

James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

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1 Kings 12:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,

1 Kings 12:5
And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.

1 Kings 12:12
So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.

1 Kings 12:15
So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.

1 Kings 12:16
And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.

1 Kings 12:17
(But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)

1 Kings 12:18
Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 12:19
So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.

1 Kings 12:20
Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.

2 Chronicles 10:17
But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.

2 Chronicles 10:18
Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 10:19
So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.

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1 Kings 14:25
Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;

1 Kings 14:26
And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.

1 Kings 14:27
So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

1 Kings 14:28
And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

2 Chronicles 12:9
So Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away all the stored wealth of the house of the Lord and the king's house: he took everything away, and with the rest the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.

2 Chronicles 12:10
And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

Ecclesiastes 3:22
So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

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2 Chronicles 9:14
And in addition to what he got from traders of different sorts, all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the country gave gold and silver to Solomon.

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1 Kings 11:43
And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Solomon went to rest with his fathers and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 10:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.

2 Chronicles 10:2
And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in flight from King Solomon,) he came back from Egypt.

2 Chronicles 10:3
And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

2 Chronicles 10:4
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

2 Chronicles 10:5
And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.

2 Chronicles 10:6
Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

2 Chronicles 10:7
And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.

2 Chronicles 11:23
And in his wisdom he had his sons stationed in every walled town through all the lands of Judah and Benjamin; and he gave them a great store of food, and took wives for them.

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2 Chronicles 22:4
And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 22:5
Acting on their suggestion, he went with Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the bowmen.

2 Chronicles 22:7
Now by the purpose of God, Ahaziah's journey to see Jehoram was the cause of his downfall: for when he came there, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu, the son of Nimshi, who had been marked out by the Lord for the destruction of the family of Ahab.

2 Chronicles 22:8
Now when Jehu was effecting the punishment of the family of Ahab, he came to the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, the servants of Ahaziah, and put them to death.

2 Chronicles 22:9
And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, (for he was in a secret place in Samaria,) they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.

Proverbs 12:5
The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

Daniel 6:7
All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

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Proverbs 17:14
The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

Ecclesiastes 7:8
The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.

Ecclesiastes 10:16
Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

Luke 16:8
And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

James 3:15
This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

James 3:16
For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

James 3:18
And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.

James 4:1
What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

James 4:2
You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.

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