2 Chronicles 10:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ King Rehoboam 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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ And answered them after 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ and spake to them after the counsel 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ and instead followed the young people’s advice. He said, “My father made your workload heavy, but I’ll make it even heavier; my father disciplined you with whips, but I’ll do it with scorpions!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And he spoke according to the will of the youths: "My father imposed a heavy yoke upon you, which I will make heavier. My father cut you with whips; truly, I will beat you with scorpions."

2 Chronicles 10:14 Krydshenvisninger

2 Chronicles 10:13

And the king answered them harshly, and forsaking the counsel of the old men,

2 Chronicles 10:15

So the king did not hearken to the people; for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the Lord might fulfil his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are treacherous.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so quit before the quarrel breaks out.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!

Ecclesiastes 2:19

and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Daniel 6:7

All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an interdict, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

Revelation 9:10

They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and their power of hurting men for five months lies in their tails.

Revelation 9:3

Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth;

Revelation 9:5

they were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man.