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Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

1 Kings 12:11 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતી1 રાજાઓ ૧૨:૧૧
તો હવે, મારા પિતાએ તમારા પર ભારે ઝૂંસરી મૂકી, તે તમારા પરની ઝૂંસરી હું વધુ ભારે કરીશ. મારા પિતાએ તમને ચાબુકથી શિક્ષા કરી, પણ હું તમને વીંછીઓથી શિક્ષા કરીશ.’”
हिन्दी1 राजाओं १२:११
मेरे पिता ने तुम पर जो भारी जूआ रखा था, उसे मैं और भी भारी करूँगा; मेरा पिता तो तुम को कोड़ों से ताड़ना देता था, परन्तु मैं बिच्छुओं से दूँगा।’”

In context

9He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter’?”

10The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us’—tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

11Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”

13The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

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