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

So he did what was evil in the Lord’s sight like the house of Ahab, for they were his advisers after the death of his father, to his destruction.

The thoughts of the righteous are just,
but guidance from the wicked leads to deceit.

All the administrators of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an edict that for 30 days, anyone who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions’ den.

My father

Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us!’ This is what you should say to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.

To start a conflict is to release a flood;
stop the dispute before it breaks out.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

The end of a matter is better than its beginning;
a patient spirit is better than a proud spirit.

Woe to you, land, when your king is a youth
and your princes feast in the morning.

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?