2 Chronicles 10:14
and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but *I* will add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but *I* [will chastise you] with scorpions.
Darby Translation
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In Context
13And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the advice of the old men,
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:10And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him saying, Thus shalt thou say to the people who have spoken to thee saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and lighten thou it for us, thus shalt thou say to them: My little [finger] is thicker than my father's loins;
Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knoweth whether he will be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
James 3:14but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and 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 →