2 Chronicles 10:11
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.”
- Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.
- 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 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.”’”
- Matt 11:29 : 29 Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- Luke 10:19 : 19 Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.
- Rev 9:3 : 3 Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
- Rev 9:5 : 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.
- Rev 9:10 : 10 They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.
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- 1 Kgs 12:9-146 verses97%
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.”
- 2 Chr 10:12-143 verses91%
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.”
- 2 Chr 10:9-102 verses78%
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!
- 1 Kgs 12:3-42 verses77%
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.”
- 2 Chr 10:3-42 verses77%
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.”
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10When I please, I will discipline them; I will gather nations together to attack them, to bind them in chains for their two sins.
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32I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, their sin by inflicting them with bruises.
- Nah 1:12-132 verses70%
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.”
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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.
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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.
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39I will humiliate David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.”
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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.
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28I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.
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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.”
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6“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”
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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.
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2The LORD told me,“Make a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.
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11As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.”
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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.
- 1 Kgs 11:11-122 verses68%
11So the LORD said to Solomon,“Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
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.
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11My child, do not despise discipline from the LORD, and do not loathe his rebuke.
- Lev 26:23-242 verses68%
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.
- 2 Chr 28:10-112 verses67%
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!”
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13Look! I will press you down, like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.
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5Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the LORD your God disciplines you.
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5The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria Beware, Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
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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.
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11So I, the LORD, say this:‘I will soon bring disaster on them which they will not be able to escape! When they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.
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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.
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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.”’”
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17He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.
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3The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.
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30“It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.”
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9You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.
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3Therefore the LORD says this:“Look, I am devising disaster for this nation! It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of catastrophe.
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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.