2 Chronicles 10:14
and speaks to them according to the counsel of the boys, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, and I add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, and I—with scorpions.”
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13And the king answers them sharply, and King Rehoboam forsakes the counsel of the aged men,
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:10And the boys who have grown up with him speak with him, saying, “Thus you say to the people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and you, make light [some] of our yoke; thus you say to them, My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father;
Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous [are] justice, || The counsels of the wicked—deceit.
Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knows whether he is wise or foolish? Yet he rules over all my labor that I have labored at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! This [is] also vanity.
Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to you, O land, when your king [is] a youth, || And your princes eat in the morning.
James 3:14yet, if you have bitter zeal, and rivalry in your heart, do not glory, nor 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 →