2 Chronicles 10:14
and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto. My father chastised you with whips, but I with scorpions.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13And the king answered them roughly. And king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:10And the young men that grew up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall thou say to the people who spoke to thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter to us. Thus shall thou say to them, My little finge
Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy rulers feast in the morning!
James 3:14But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 10:13-19
Rehoboam's Folly. ( b. c. 975.) 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day. 13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, 14 And 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. 15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of… Read the whole commentary →