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He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we respond to these people who are asking me to lighten the burden my father put on them?”

10 The young men who had grown up with him answered, “This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is heavier than my father’s whole body.[a] 11 If my father put a heavy burden on you, I will add to it. If my father punished you with whips, I will punish you with scorpions.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 10:10 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

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