Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to the land whose king is immature and whose princes feast in the morning. Self-indulgent, unfit leadership brings ruin to a people.

Cross-references · 13

• Isa 3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
• Isa 5:11–12Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
• Isa 3:4–5I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.
• Prov 20:1–2Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
• Jer 21:12House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
• 2 Chr 13:7Worthless men were gathered to him, base fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them.
• 2 Chr 36:9Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
• 2 Chr 36:2Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
• Isa 28:7–8They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
• 2 Chr 36:5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight.
• Hos 7:5–7On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
• 2 Chr 36:11Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 33:1–20Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

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