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2 Chronicles 10:11

King James Version (KJV)

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For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.

2 Chronicles 10:11 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 2 Chronicles 10:11

Theological / Devotional

Scorpions. These small animals with stings in their tails that inflict severe pain seem here to be used as a figure of a whip probably provided with sharp pieces of metal that made its use particularly painful and cruel. Thus Rehoboam was telling the people that he would treat them with greater severity than his father. Throughout the ages there have been those who thought that government must be by power rather than by kindness and mercy and that peoples can be held in subjection by brute force. But the verdict of history has always been to the contrary.

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