2 Chronicles 10:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Exod 1:13-14 : 13 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do: 14 And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
  • Exod 5:5-9 : 5 And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work. 6 The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying, 7 Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves. 8 But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God. 9 Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.
  • Exod 5:18 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 8:18 : 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.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;
  • Isa 58:6 : 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?
  • Jer 28:13-14 : 13 Go and say to Hananiah, This is what the Lord has said: Yokes of wood have been broken by you, but in their place I will make yokes of iron. 14 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: I have put a yoke of iron on the necks of all these nations, making them servants to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; and they are to be his servants: and in addition I have given him the beasts of the field.
  • Matt 11:29 : 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
  • Luke 10:19 : 19 See, I have given you power to put your feet on snakes and evil beasts, and over all the strength of him who is against you: and nothing will do you damage.
  • Rev 9:3 : 3 And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.
  • Rev 9:5 : 5 And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.
  • Rev 9:10 : 10 And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:9-14
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    9And said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

    10And 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;

    11If 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.

    12So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.

    13And the king gave them a rough answer, giving no attention to the suggestion of the old men;

    14But 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 Chr 10:12-14
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    12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day.

    13And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,

    14But gave 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 Chr 10:9-10
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    9And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

    10And 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, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

  • 1 Kgs 12:3-4
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    3And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

    4Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

  • 2 Chr 10:3-4
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    3And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

    4Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

  • Hos 10:10
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    10I will come and give them punishment; and the peoples will come together against them when I give them the reward of their two sins.

  • Ps 89:32
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    32Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

  • Nah 1:12-13
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    12This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.

    13And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.

  • Isa 10:26
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    26And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
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    14I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

  • 1 Kgs 11:39
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    39(So that I may send trouble for this on the seed of David, but not for ever.)

  • Jer 13:21
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    21What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?

  • Lev 26:28
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    28Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

  • Heb 12:6
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    6For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

  • Lev 26:18
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    18And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins.

  • Jer 27:2
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    2This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;

  • Isa 10:11
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    11So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.

  • Lev 26:21
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    21And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins.

  • 1 Kgs 11:11-12
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    11So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws, which I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.

    12I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

  • Prov 3:11
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    11My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:

  • Lev 26:23-24
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    23And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me;

    24Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.

  • 2 Chr 28:10-11
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    10And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

    11And now give ear to me, and send back the prisoners whom you have taken from your brothers: for the wrath of the Lord is burning against you.

  • Amos 2:13
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    13See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.

  • Deut 8:5
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    5Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.

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    5Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

  • 2 Chr 13:8
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    8And now it is your purpose to put yourselves against the authority which the Lord has put into the hands of the sons of David, and you are a very great number, and you have with you the gold oxen which Jeroboam made to be your gods.

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  • Jer 31:18
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    18Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

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    17He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.

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    9But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.

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    8And it will come about, that if any nation does not become a servant to this same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will send punishment on that nation, says the Lord, by the sword and need of food and by disease, till I have given them into his hands.