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

And he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the house of Ahab, for they have been his counsellors, after the death of his father, for destruction to him.

The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit.

Taken counsel have all the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the counsellors, and the governors, to establish a royal statute, and to strengthen an interdict, that any who seeketh a petition from any god and man until thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of lions.

My father

And the lads who have grown up with him, speak with him, saying, 'Thus dost thou say to the people who have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and thou, make light somewhat of our yoke; thus dost thou say unto them, My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father;

The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also is vanity.

Better is the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better is the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?