1 Kings 12:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:10

And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

1 Kings 12:12

So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.

1 Kings 12:14

But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

2 Chronicles 16:10

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

Exodus 5:18

Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

Jeremiah 27:11

But as for that nation which puts its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and becomes his servant, I will let that nation keep on in its land, farming it and living in it, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 2:6

And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

1 Samuel 8:18

Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.