2 Chronicles 10:13-15

Living Bible

¹³ he spoke roughly to them; for he refused the advice of the old men ¹⁴ and followed the counsel of the younger ones.

“My father gave you heavy burdens, but I will give you heavier!” he told them. “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions!”

¹⁵ So the king turned down the people’s demands. (God caused him to do it in order to fulfill his prediction^[a] spoken to Jeroboam by Ahijah the Shilonite.)