2 Chronicles 10:14
And he spoke according to the advice of the young men : My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
13And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the ancients.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:10But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in pleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to thee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou answer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.
Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Ecclesiastes 2:19Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?
Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.
James 3:14But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars 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 →