1 Kings 12:11

New International Version

My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.’ ”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:10

The young men who had grown up with him replied, “These people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

1 Kings 12:12

Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.”

1 Kings 12:14

he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”

2 Chronicles 16:10

Asa was angry with the seer because of this; he was so enraged that he put him in prison. At the same time Asa brutally oppressed some of the people.

Exodus 5:18

Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.”

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to the land whose king was a servant and whose princes feast in the morning.

Isaiah 58:6

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

Jeremiah 27:11

But if any nation will bow its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let that nation remain in its own land to till it and to live there, declares the Lord.” ’ ”

Ezekiel 2:6

And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.

1 Samuel 8:18

When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”