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2 Chronicles 10:9-11
Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 Chronicles 10:9-11
Holman Christian Standard Bible
9 He asked them, “What message do you advise we send back to these people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
10 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.[a] 11 Now therefore, my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.’”[b]
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- 2 Chronicles 10:10 Or waist
- 2 Chronicles 10:11 Lit with scorpions
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