2 Chronicles 10:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The advice

2 Chronicles 22:4

Proverbs 12:5

Daniel 6:7

My father

James 4:1

Bible References

The advice

And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

My father

And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.

Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?