2 Chronicles 10:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice, saying, ‘My father made your yoke heavy,  , but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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)

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

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

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."

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.

2 Chronicles 10:14 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 10:13

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

2 Chronicles 10:15

The king did not listen to the people because the turn of events came from God,  in order that the Lord might carry out his word that he had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but guidance from the wicked is deceitful.

Proverbs 17:14

To start a conflict is to release a flood; stop the dispute before it breaks out.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to you, land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast in the morning.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool?  Yet he will take over all my work that I laboured at skilfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

The end of a matter is better than its beginning; a patient spirit is better than a proud spirit.

Daniel 6:7

All the administrators of the kingdom   #– #the prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors #– #have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an edict that, for thirty days, anyone who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions’ den.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.

Revelation 9:10

and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.

Revelation 9:3

Then locusts came out of the smoke on to the earth,  and power  was given to them  like the power that scorpions have on the earth.

Revelation 9:5

They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it stings someone.