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11 and now (though) my father putted on you a grievous yoke, forsooth I shall add on(to) your yoke (but I shall add to your yoke); my father beat you with scourges, but I shall beat you with scorpions[a].

12 Therefore Jeroboam, and all the people, came to Rehoboam, in the third day, as the king spake, saying, Turn ye again to me in the third day (Come ye back to me in three days).

13 And the king answered hard things to the people, while the counsel of [the] elder men was forsaken, that they had given to him;

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  1. 1 Kings 12:11 That is, a kind of (the) hardest scourge, that hath knots of lead, either of iron, in the end of cords (on the end of the cords).