2 Chronicles 11:23 Cross References - Matthew

²³ And he played wysely & skatered of al hys children thorow out all the countreyes of Iuda & Beniamin in euerye strong cyty. And he gaue them aboundaunce of vytayle, and asked manye wyues.

⁶ And vnto the sonnes of hys concubynes he gaue gyftes, and sent them away from Isaac hys sonne (whyle he yet lyued) eastwarde vnto the east contrye.

⁵ But Adoniah the sonne of Hagith exalted hym selfe sayinge. I wylbe kynge. And he gat hym a charet and horsmen and fyfty men to runne before hym. ⁶ And hys father rebuked hym not at anye tyme nor sayde so muche to him, as why doest thou so? And he was therto a goodly man, and hys mother bare him next after Absalom.

⁸ But he lefte the councell whiche the elders gaue hym, & toke councell wyth the young men that were noursed vp wt hym, & had stande in hys presence, ⁹ and said to them: what aduise geue ye that I may answer thys people which haue communed with me, sayinge: Abate somewhat of the youck which thy father dyd put vpon vs. ¹⁰ And the young men that were nourced vp wyth hym talked wyth hym saying: thus answere the people that spake to the saying. Thy father made oure youcke heauye: But make thou oure youcke somewhat lyghter. Thus wyse aunswere them: my lytle fynger shalbe heuyer then my fathers loynes. ¹¹ For where my father put a heauye youcke vpon you. I wyl put more therto, & where my father chastised you with whyppes, I wyl chastyse you with scorpyons. ¹² And when Ieroboam and all Israel were come the thyrd day, as the king bade, saying: come agayne to me the thyrd daye. ¹³ The king answered them cruellye, for kinge Rehoboam lefte the councell of the aged men, ¹⁴ & answered them after the aduise of the young men saying: If my father made youre youcke greuouse, I wyll adde therto, and where my father chastised you wyth whippes, I will chastyse you with scorpions. ¹⁵ And so the kynge herkened not vnto the people, for the turnynge awaye was of God, that the Lord might make good hys sayinge whiche he spake by the hande of Ahiah the Silonite to Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat.

³ And their father gaue them many great gyftes in syluer, goulde & other preciouse thinges with stronge cytyes in Iuda: but the kingedom he gaue to Iehoram, because he was the eldest.

⁸ And the Lord commended the vniust steward because he had done wyslye. For the chyldren of thys worlde are in theyr kynde, wyser then the chyldren of lyght,