2 Chronicles 10:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:13

And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,

2 Chronicles 10:15

So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

Proverbs 12:5

The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

Proverbs 17:14

The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.

Daniel 6:7

All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

Revelation 9:10

And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.

Revelation 9:3

And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.

Revelation 9:5

And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.