...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...

...and he answered them roughly (or heavily)—" My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions," that is, with scourges armed with sharp points, and lacerating the flesh at each blow. It was enough....

...This was just Rehoboam's opinion ; so he said to the people, " 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." The people were naturally enough enraged with this brutal answer, and in a short time all was confusion....

...be thicker than my father's loins. uFor whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Eehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come...

...be thicker than my father's loins. For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.' This is to say — if we are to explain the simile — that whereas his father had scourged them with...

...and David came Solomon, who "answered the people roughly, saying: My father made your yoke heaw, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." And in these latter days, five hundred hereditary peers own one-fifth of England; and they, and the...

...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...