2 Chronicles 10:14

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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

Therefore, he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for they were his counsellors, after the death of his father, to his destruction.

The thoughts of the righteous are upright, but the astuteness of the wicked is deceit.

All the presidents of the kingdom, magistrates, governors, great ones, and captains have agreed in common accord to promote a royal decree and to confirm it that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

My father

Then the young men that were brought up with him spoke unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spoke unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.

To release the waters (to speak rashly) is the beginning of contention; therefore, leave off strife before it gets started.

And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool, he who shall have rule over all my labour in which I have laboured and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun? This is also vanity.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and he who has suffered in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes banquet in the morning!

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.

Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?