2 Chronicles 10:14

A Conservative Version

and spoke 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 with scorpions.

Cross References

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.

Daniel 6:7

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god o

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy rulers feast in the morning!

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is [like] letting out water. Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Revelation 9:3

And locusts came forth out of the smoke upon the earth, and power was given to them, like the scorpions of the earth have power.

Revelation 9:5

And it was given them that they would not kill them, but that they would be tormented five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.

Revelation 9:10

And they have tails similar to scorpions, and stings. And in their tails they have power to hurt men five months.

2 Chronicles 10:13

And the king answered them roughly. And king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,

2 Chronicles 10:15

So the king did not hearkened to the people. For it was brought about by God, that LORD might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.