The young men who had grown up with him replied, "This is how you should answer these people who said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.' This is what you should tell them: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist! People Abijah, Adoniram, Ahijah, David, Hadoram, Israelites, Jeroboam, Jesse, Nebat, Rehoboam, SolomonPlaces Egypt, Jerusalem, ShechemTopics Body, Father's, Finger, Generation, Grew, Grown, Heavy, Lads, Less, Lighten, Lighter, Loins, Replied, Saying, Somewhat, Spake, Speak, Spoke, Spoken, Thicker, Thus, Waist, YokeOutline 1. The Israelites, assembled at Shechem to crown Rehoboam, 3. by Jeroboam make a suit of relaxation unto him,6. Rehoboam, refusing the old mens' counsel, answers them roughly,16. Ten tribes revolting, kill Hadoram, and make Rehoboam fleeJump to Previous Father's Finger Grown Heavy Lighter Somewhat Thicker Waist Yoke YoungJump to Next Father's Finger Grown Heavy Lighter Somewhat Thicker Waist Yoke YoungLibrary Chronicles
The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old TestamentParallel Verses NASB: The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us.' Thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins!KJV: And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
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