13The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders,


In Context

10 The young men who had grown up with him replied, "Tell these people who have said to you, 'Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter'-tell them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.

11 My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.' "

12 Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, "Come back to me in three days."

13 The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders,

14 he followed the advice of the young men and said, "My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions."

15 So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the Lord , to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

1st Kings 12:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:13And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the advice of the old men which they had given him;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:13The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:13And the king answereth the people sharply, and forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;