2 Tawarikh 10:9-10

10:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ¹  10:10 The young advisers with whom Rehoboam ²  had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden’ ³  – say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father! ⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 16:3

16:3 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. ⁵  See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” ⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 21:13

21:13 but have instead followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. You encouraged the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord, just as the family of Ahab does in Israel. ⁷  You also killed your brothers, members of your father’s family, ⁸  who were better than you.

[10:9]  ¹ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

[10:10]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:10]  ³ tn Heb “Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter upon us.”

[10:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “My little one is thicker than my father’s hips.” The referent of “my little one” is not clear. The traditional view is that it refers to the little finger (so NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). As the following statement makes clear, Rehoboam’s point is that he is more harsh and demanding than his father.

[16:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

[16:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

[21:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “and you walked in the way of the kings of Israel and caused Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to commit adultery, like the house of Ahab causes to commit adultery.”

[21:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “the house of your father.”