...little finger is thicker than my father's loins. And now, my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you 12 with scorpions.' " And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam, on the third day, according...

...and took that of the young and foolish men ; and on the third day, he answered the people, saying, My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. Then the ten tribes rebelled against him, and set Jeroboam as king over them, according to the word...

...the third day; and the king answered the people roughly, after the counsel of the young men, saying, my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your...with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.' Fiat voluntas dei !" Catesby turned angrily from the priest, whose air of tranquillity drove him, as...

...greatness and terror in their new prince ; My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. My father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. My father hath chastised you with whips, I will chastise you with scorpions. The very words have stings. Now...

...verse. The other view to which reference has been made draws its strength from 1 Kings xii. 11 — " My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions ;" and from the parallel passage 2 Chron. x. 11. But "scorpion" in this passage has no reference to...

...Eastern monarchy, threatened them with still heavier exactions. "My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke ; my father chastised you...with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." "To your tents, 0 Israel!" was the instantaneous cry; the ten tribes unanimously renounced their allegiance,...

...Eastern monarchy, threatened them with still heavier exactions. "My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke ; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpious." "To your tents, 0 Israel! " was the instantaneous cry ; the ten tribes unanimously renounced...

...replied to the deputies, ' My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke; my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.' Such an answer was the signal for rebellion ; the people exclaimed, ' What portion have we in David? neither...

...the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, 532 but I will add thereto : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." . . . And Israel rebelled against the House of David unto this day.' (2 Chronicles, 10.) Foolish and...

...your father put upon us," Rehoboam responded by increasing it: "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions" (1 Kings 12:14). For many, life in the promised land under Solomon and Rehoboam must have looked only...