2 Chronicles 10:14

Modern English Version

He spoke to them with the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will increase it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:13

Then the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders.

2 Chronicles 10:15

The king did not listen to the people, for the event occurred because of God, that the Lord might establish His word that He spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so stop the contention before fighting begins.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

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

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows if this man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will gain power over all for which I have toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and the patient in spirit than the haughty in spirit.

Daniel 6:7

All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the officials, the counselors, and the captains have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

Revelation 9:10

They had tails like scorpions and stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men for five months.

Revelation 9:3

And out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. Power was given them as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Revelation 9:5

They were given authority, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.