1 Kings 12:11

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My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’”

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  • Exod 1:13-14 : 13 and they made the Israelites serve rigorously. 14 They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.
  • Exod 5:5-9 : 5 Pharaoh was thinking,“The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.” 6 That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people: 7 “You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves. 8 But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying,‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’ 9 Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”
  • Exod 5:18 : 18 So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”
  • 1 Sam 8:18 : 18 In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD won’t answer you in that day.”
  • 1 Kgs 12:14 : 14 and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said,“My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”
  • 2 Chr 16:10 : 10 Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.
  • Isa 58:6 : 6 No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.
  • Jer 27:11 : 11 Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the LORD, affirm it!”’”
  • Jer 28:13-14 : 13 “Go and tell Hananiah that the LORD says,‘You have indeed broken the wooden yoke. But you have only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one! 14 For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,“I have put an irresistible yoke of servitude on all these nations so they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. And they will indeed serve him. I have even given him control over the wild animals.”’”
  • Ezek 2:6 : 6 But you, son of man, do not fear them, and do not fear their words– even though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions– do not fear their words and do not be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house!
  • Rev 9:3-9 : 3 Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their forehead. 5 The locusts were not given permission to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and their torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person. 6 In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them. 7 Now the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, and their faces looked like men’s faces. 8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle. 10 They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 10:9-14
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    97%

    9He asked them,“How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me,‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”

    10The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him,“Say this to these people who have said to you,‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden’– say this to them:‘I am a lot harsher than my father!

    11My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’”

    12Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said,“Return to me on the third day.”

    13The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older men

    14and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said,“My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”

  • 1 Kgs 12:12-14
    3 verses
    92%

    12Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said,“Return to me on the third day.”

    13The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older men

    14and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said,“My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”

  • 1 Kgs 12:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3They sent for him, and Jeroboam and the whole Israelite assembly came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

    4“Your father made us work too hard. Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

  • 1 Kgs 12:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9He asked them,“How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me,‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”

    10The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him,“Say this to these people who have said to you,‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.’ Say this to them:‘I am a lot harsher than my father!

  • 2 Chr 10:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3They sent for him and Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

    4“Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

  • Nah 1:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12Oracle of Deliverance to Judah This is what the LORD says:“Even though they are powerful– and what is more, even though their army is numerous– nevertheless, they will be destroyed and trickle away! Although I afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

    13And now, I will break Assyria’s yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you.”

  • Ps 89:32
    71%

    32I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, their sin by inflicting them with bruises.

  • Heb 12:5-7
    3 verses
    70%

    5And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.

    6“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”

    7Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

  • Jer 13:21
    70%

    21What will you say when the LORD appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.

  • Lev 26:28
    69%

    28I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

  • Hos 10:10
    69%

    10When I please, I will discipline them; I will gather nations together to attack them, to bind them in chains for their two sins.

  • 1 Kgs 11:39
    69%

    39I will humiliate David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.”

  • Lev 26:18
    69%

    18“‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
    68%

    14I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

  • 2 Chr 28:10-11
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    68%

    10And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

    11Now listen to me! Send back those you have seized from your brothers, for the LORD is very angry at you!”

  • Lev 26:21
    68%

    21“‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

  • Jer 27:2
    68%

    2The LORD told me,“Make a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.

  • Isa 10:26
    68%

    26The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is about to beat them with a whip, similar to the way he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will use his staff against the sea, lifting it up as he did in Egypt.

  • Jer 8:17
    68%

    17The LORD says,“Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”

  • Prov 3:11
    68%

    11My child, do not despise discipline from the LORD, and do not loathe his rebuke.

  • Lev 26:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23“‘If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,

    24I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.

  • Amos 2:13
    68%

    13Look! I will press you down, like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.

  • 1 Sam 12:15
    68%

    15But if you don’t obey the LORD and rebel against what the LORD says, the hand of the LORD will be against both you and your king.

  • Deut 1:12
    68%

    12But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

  • Ps 129:3
    67%

    3The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.

  • 1 Kgs 12:27
    67%

    27If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem, their loyalty could shift to their former master, King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”

  • 2 Chr 13:8
    67%

    8Now you are declaring that you will resist the LORD’s rule through the Davidic dynasty. You have a huge army, and bring with you the gold calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

  • 1 Kgs 12:7
    67%

    7They said to him,“Today if you will be a servant to these people and grant their request, speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.”

  • Deut 8:5
    67%

    5Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the LORD your God disciplines you.

  • Jer 28:14
    67%

    14For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,“I have put an irresistible yoke of servitude on all these nations so they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. And they will indeed serve him. I have even given him control over the wild animals.”’”

  • Jer 31:18
    67%

    18I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully,‘We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the LORD our God.

  • Hos 7:12
    67%

    12I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying, I will bring them down like birds in the sky; I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.

  • 1 Kgs 11:12
    67%

    12However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.

  • Jer 27:8
    67%

    8But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the LORD, affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it.

  • 1 Kgs 12:17
    67%

    17(Rehoboam continued to rule over the Israelites who lived in the cities of Judah.)