2 Chronicles 10:14
He spoke to them following the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.”
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13Rehoboam spoke to them harshly, ignoring the advice of the old men.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:10The young men who had grown up with Rehoboam spoke to him, saying, “This is how you should speak to the people who told you that your father Solomon made their yoke heavy, but that you must make it lighter. This is what you should say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.
Proverbs 12:5The plans of the righteous are just, 1 but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:19For who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over everything under the sun that my work and wisdom have built. This also is vapor.
Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to you, land, if your king is a young boy, 2 and if your leaders begin feasting in the morning! 1
James 3:14But if you have bitter jealousy and ambition in your heart, 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 →