1 Kings 12:11

Legacy Standard Bible

So now, my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:10

Then the young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!’ Thus you shall speak 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 on the third day as the king had spoken, saying, “Return to me on the third day.”

1 Kings 12:14

and he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “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 vexed with the seer and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

Exodus 5:18

So now, go and labor; but straw will not be given to you, yet you must deliver the quota of bricks.”

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to you, O land, whose king is a young man and whose princes eat in the morning.

Isaiah 58:6

“Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To release the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke?

Jeremiah 27:11

But the nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it on its land,” declares Yahweh, “and they will serve it and inhabit it.” ’ ”

Ezekiel 2:6

Now as for you, son of man, do not fear them and do not fear their words, though thistles and briers are with you and you sit on scorpions; neither fear their words nor be dismayed at their presence, for they are a rebellious house.

1 Samuel 8:18

Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”