2 Chronicles 10:8-11 ▼

8 And he rejected the counsel of the elders who had counseled him, and he counseled with the young men who had grown up with him, those standing before him.

9 And he said to them, “What do you? counsel, and how should we answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten from the yoke that your father gave to us’?”

10 and the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you should speak to the people who have spoken to you, saying, ‘Your father made heavy our yoke, and you, make it lighter on us’—thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.

11 And now, my father loaded on you? a heavy yoke, and I will add to your? yoke; my father chastised you? with whips, and I with scorpions.’”