The king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam ignored the counsel of the elders
2 Chronicles 10:14 - Tree of Life Version and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men saying, “I will make your yoke heavy—I will make it even heavier. My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
The king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam ignored the counsel of the elders
So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God so that Adonai might establish His word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water— so stop a quarrel before it breaks out.
Oy to you, O land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast in the morning.
Who knows if he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my toil for which I had wisely labored under the sun. This too is futile.
Better the end of a matter than its beginning. Better a patient spirit than a proud one.
So these supervisors and satraps went in to the king as a group, and said to him, “King Darius, live forever!
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
They have tails like scorpions with stingers; and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months.
Then from the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given to them like the scorpions have power over the earth.
And they were permitted not to kill them, but to torment them for five months—and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person.