2 Chronicles 10:14
and spoke to them according to the counsel 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.
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In Context
13And the king answered harshly; and King Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:10And the young men that had been brought up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak to the people that spoke to thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and do thou lighten somewhat of it from us; thus shalt thou say, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.
Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are true judgments; 1 But ungodly men devise deceits. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? 1 And whether he will have power over all my labor 1 In which I labored, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? 1 This is also vanity. 1
Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O city, whose king is young, 1 And thy princes eat in the morning! 1
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 →