1 Kings 12:13-15

Revised Geneva Translation

¹³ And the king answered the people sharply, and left the old men’s counsel that they gave him,

¹⁴ and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke grievous, and I will make your yoke more grievous. My father has chastised you with rods, but I will correct you with scourges.”

¹⁵ And the king did not listen to the people. For it was the Ordinance of the LORD that he might perform his saying which the LORD had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.