1 Kings 12:11
Not only that, but since my father loaded you down heavily, I'm going to add to that burden. My father disciplined you with whips, but I'm going to discipline you with scorpions!'"
Exodus 1:13-14
The Egyptians ruthlessly forced the Israelis to serve them,
Exodus 5:5-9
Then Pharaoh said, "Look, the people in the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working."
Exodus 5:18
Now, go! Get to work! And straw won't be given to you, but you are to deliver the same number of bricks!"
1 Samuel 8:18
When all of this comes about, you will cry out because of your king whom you chose for yourselves, but the LORD won't answer you at that time."
1 Kings 12:14
Instead, Rehoboam spoke to them along the lines of what the younger men suggested. He told them, "My father burdened you heavily, but I will add to that burden. If my father disciplined you with whips, I'm going to discipline you with scorpions!"
2 Chronicles 16:10
In response, Asa flew into a rage and locked up the seer in stocks in the palace prison because of what Hanani had told him. Asa also tortured some of the people of Israel at that time.
Isaiah 58:6
Isn't this the fast that I have been choosing: to loose the bonds of injustice, and to untie the cords of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Jeremiah 27:11
But I'll let the nation that brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him remain in its own land," declares the LORD, "and they'll work it and remain in it."'"
Jeremiah 28:13-14
"Go and say to Hananiah, "This is what the LORD says: "You have broken wooden yokes, but you have made iron yokes in their place."
Ezekiel 2:6
"Now as for you, Son of Man, never be afraid of them or of anything they have to say, because being with them will be like settling down to live among briers, thorn bushes, and scorpions! Don't be afraid of anything they have to say, and don't be awed by their appearance, since they are a rebellious group.
Revelation 9:3-10
Locusts came out of the smoke onto the earth, and they were given power like that of earthly scorpions.