1 Kings 12:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ And now whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

Common English Bible

¹¹ So if my father made your workload heavy, I’ll make it even heavier! If my father disciplined you with whips, I’ll do it with scorpions!’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ And now, my father placed a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add more upon your yoke. My father cut you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ And now my father put a, heavy yoke upon you: but I will add to your yoke. My father beat you with whips: but I will beat you with scorpions.

1 Kings 12:11 Cross References

1 Kings 12:10

The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus you should say to this people who spoke to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must lighten it for us’; thus you should say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.

1 Kings 12:12

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had said, “Come to me again the third day.”

1 Kings 12:14

and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

2 Chronicles 16:10

Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks, in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties on some of the people at the same time.

Exodus 5:18

Go now and work, for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks.”

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Alas for you, O land, when your king is a child and your princes feast in the morning!

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Jeremiah 27:11

But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, says the Lord, to till it and to live there.

Ezekiel 2:6

And you, O mortal, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

1 Samuel 8:18

And on that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you on that day.”