2 Chronicles 10:14
12 After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
13 And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
15 So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
16 When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- and spoke to them after the counsel 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.”
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- and spoke to them according to 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.
- BLB
- and he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “Your⁺ yoke [My father] made heavy, and I will add to it; my father chastised you⁺ with whips, and I with scorpions.”
- ÅB
- men svarte dem som de unge hadde rådet til: Har min far gjort deres åk tungt, så vil jeg gjøre det enda tyngre; har min far tuktet dere med sveper, så vil jeg tukte dere med skorpioner.
- OTB
- Han talte til dem etter de unge mennenes råd og sa: “Min far gjorde deres åk tungt, men jeg vil legge til det; min far tuktet dere med pisker, men jeg vil tukte dere med skorpioner.”
- B1930
- men svarte dem som de unge hadde rådet til: Har min far gjort eders åk tungt, så vil jeg gjøre det ennu tyngre; har min far tuktet eder med sveper, så vil jeg tukte eder med skorpioner.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
Read in contextJames 3:14–4:2
But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 2:19
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
Read in contextProverbs 12:5
The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.
Read in contextDaniel 6:7
All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.
Read in contextProverbs 17:14
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 7:8
The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.
Read in context2 Chronicles 10:10–11
The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
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