12 So (A)Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had directed, saying, “Come back to me the third day.” 13 Then the king answered them roughly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders, 14 and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, [a]“My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with [b]scourges!”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 10:14 So with many Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. (cf. v. 10; 1 Kin. 12:14); MT I
  2. 2 Chronicles 10:14 Lit. scorpions

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