13 And the king answered them sharply: and king Rehoboam left the counsel of the ancient men,

14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke grievous, but I will increase it: my father chastised you with rods, but I will correct you with scourges.

15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for it was the [a]ordinance of God, that the Lord might perform his saying, which he had spoken [b]by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 10:15 God’s will imposeth such a necessity to the second causes, that nothing can be done but according to the same, and yet man’s will worketh as of itself, so that it cannot be excused in doing that it is God’s ordinance.
  2. 2 Chronicles 10:15 Hebrew, by the hand of.

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