2 Chronicles 10:14

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he spoke according to the advice of the young men: My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier. My father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.

Cross References

James 3:14

But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: before he suffereth reproach he forsaketh judgment.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Revelation 9:3

And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power:

Revelation 9:5

And it was given unto them that they should not kill them; but that they should torment them five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.

Revelation 9:10

And they had tails like to scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had over them

2 Chronicles 10:13

And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the ancients.

2 Chronicles 10:15

And he condescended not to the people's requests: for it was the will of God, that his word might be fulfilled, which he had spoken by the hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.