For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
(2 Chronicles 10:11)So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.
(2 Chronicles 10:12)And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
(2 Chronicles 10:13)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.
So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
(2 Chronicles 10:15)And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.
(2 Chronicles 10:16)But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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2 Chronicles 10:14 - Cross Reference
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
(Proverbs 17:14)Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counselors after the death of his father to his destruction.
(2 Chronicles 22:4)All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
(Daniel 6:7)And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
(Ecclesiastes 2:19)But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
(James 3:14)And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
(2 Chronicles 10:10)The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
(Proverbs 12:5)Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
(Ecclesiastes 10:16)Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
(Ecclesiastes 7:8)