...answered the people roughly, saying, "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 haughty monarch was left to take his own course. There was no sympathy between him and his people....

...that will not make a king. The wise elders take counsel together. Raleigh and good Judge Fortescue are for requiring conditions from the new comer, and constitutional...memory of Queen Elizabeth ; a perverse delight in honouring every rascal whom she had punished. Tyrone must come to England to be received into favour,...

...king went out before the people, and said, " My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." The result of this wicked and tyrannical conduct was an insurrection among the Israelites ; and all...

...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." Verses 10, 11. This rash and unreasonable course was pursued; and when the young sovereign gave his...

...shall be thicker than my father's loins ; 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." There was heard once more the terrible war-cry that had rung in David's ear at the dissension of the...

...father's loins : for whereas my father did 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 " [Id. ver. 10, 11]. This, I remark, was said by him through levity; but in sober truth it applies...

...my thumb to my heart. I feel no hesitancy in saying that when Rehoboam said to the people of Israel, 'My father chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions,' he made a telling figure, and the people of that country, which is full of all manner of 'creeping things,'...

...them, he should demand more. " My father," said he, " made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke ; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." This unwise language alienated from his government ten tribes, who made Jeroboam, a declared enemy...

...request, declaring that the imposts should be augmented rather than diminished, and foolishly saying, " My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions (ie heavy whips, armed with iron prickles)." Immediately ten of the tribes renounced their allegiance...

...that will not make a king. The wise elders take counsel together. Raleigh and good Judge Fortescue are for requiring conditions from the new comer, and constitutional...memory of Queen Elizabeth ; a perverse delight in honouring every rascal whom she had punished. Tyrone must come to England to be received into favour,...