...that of the old men •who stood before his father, Rehoboam gave them a rough answer, declaring, " my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." This answer was the signal for a revolt of the ten tribes, and Jeroboam, who had been summoned from...

...all parts of the country. The language used by the young king Rehoboam to his complaining subjects,* "My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions," does not, it seems to us, refer, as some appear to think, to a peculiar kind of scourge bearing the...

...powerful Kings of Israel, in the glowing language of Scripture, said to his sub(Ireland) BUI. 150 jects, "My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." But the physical force on which he relied did fail him in an unlooked-for hour, and ten-twelfths of...

...parts of the country. The language used by the young king Rehoboam to his complaining subjects,* " My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions," does not, it seems to us, refer, as some appear to think, to a peculiar kind of scourge bearing the...

...they made the instrument of punishment more attractive by ornamenting it with points and thorns. " My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions," said Rehoboam, king of the Hebrews, to his people, who begged him to lighten the yoke which his father...

...after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. So the king hearkened not unto the people ; for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his...

...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." The three days elapsed, Eehoboam meets the people again at Shecham, and addressed them in the very...

...who "answered the people roughly, saying: My father made your yoke heaw, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." And in these latter days, five hundred hereditary peers own one-fifth of England; and they, and the...

...the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, 532 but I will add thereto : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." . . . And Israel rebelled against the House of David unto this day.' (2 Chronicles, 10.) Foolish and...

...Rehoboam responded by increasing it: "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions" (1 Kings 12:14). For many, life in the promised land under Solomon and Rehoboam must have looked only...