1 Kings 12:11
So then, my father loaded a heavy yoke on all of you, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions!'"
Exodus 1:13-14
And the Egyptians ruthlessly compelled the {Israelites} to work.
Exodus 5:5-9
And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land [are] now many, and you want to stop them from their {forced labor}."
Exodus 5:18
And now go, work, but straw will not be given to you, and you must give the full quota of bricks."
1 Samuel 8:18
So you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but Yahweh will not answer you on that day!"
1 Kings 12:14
He spoke to them according to the advice of the youngsters, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add onto your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."
2 Chronicles 16:10
Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in {the prison}, for he was enraged with him concerning this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.
Isaiah 58:6
Is this not [the] fast I choose: to release [the] bonds of injustice, to untie [the] ropes of [the] yoke, and to let [the] oppressed go free, and {tear} every yoke to pieces?
Jeremiah 27:11
But the nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and will serve him, yet will I leave it on its land," {declares} Yahweh, "and they will till it, and they will live in it." '"
Jeremiah 28:13-14
"Go, and you must say to Hananiah, {saying}, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You have broken yoke bars of wood, but you have made in place of them yoke bars of iron."
Ezekiel 2:6
And you, son of man, you must not be afraid of them, and you must not be afraid of their words, because briers and thorns [are] with you, and you [are] sitting among scorpions. You must not be afraid of their words, and you must not be dismayed because of their {looks}, for they [are] a rebellious house.
Revelation 9:3-10
And out of the smoke locusts came to the earth, and power was given to them like the scorpions of the earth have power.