2 Chronicles 10:14 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁴ and spoke 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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)

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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."

2 Chronicles 10:14 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 10:13

The king answered them roughly; and king Rechav`am forsook the counsel of the old men,

2 Chronicles 10:15

So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought about of God, that the LORD might establish his word, which he spoke by Achiyah the Shiloni to Yarov`am the son of Nevat.

Proverbs 12:5

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

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

Ecclesiastes 2:19

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Daniel 6:7

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

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

Revelation 9:10

They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

Revelation 9:3

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

Revelation 9:5

They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.