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11 My father imposed a heavy yoke on you. I will make your yoke heavier. My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.’”[a]

12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, because the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”

13 The king answered the people harshly, because he had rejected the advice which the old men had offered.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:11 Possibly a name for a particularly painful kind of scourge, both here and in verse 14