...and took that of the young and foolish men ; and on the third day, he answered the people, saying, My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. Then the ten tribes rebelled against him, and set Jeroboam as king over them, according to the word...

...after the counsel of the young men, saying, my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.' Fiat voluntas dei !" Catesby turned angrily from the priest, whose air of tranquillity drove him, as...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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....

...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....

...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...

...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...

...made your yoke heavy, said he in the true spirit of an Oriental despot, and I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions (i K. xii. i — 15). ~~ » This senseless reply was no sooner made known to the tribes than it roused...