40 You will live by your sword,
and you will serve your brother.
But when you rebel,[a]
you will break his yoke from your neck.

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  1. 27:40 Hb obscure

13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke(A) and enabled you to live in freedom.[a]

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  1. 26:13 Lit to walk uprightly

48 you will serve your enemies that the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke(A) on your neck until he has destroyed you.

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So they summoned him. Then Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam: “Your father made our yoke harsh. Therefore, lighten your father’s harsh service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

Rehoboam replied, “Return to me in three days.” So the people left.

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had attended his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people?”

They replied, “If you will be kind to this people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him, and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, the ones attending him. He asked them, “What message do you advise we send back to this people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

10 Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us!’ This is what you should say to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist! 11 Now therefore, my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.’”[a]

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  1. 10:11 Lit with scorpions, also in v. 14

For you have shattered their oppressive yoke(A)
and the rod on their shoulders,
the staff of their oppressor,
just as you did on the day of Midian.(B)

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This is what the Lord said to me: “Make chains and yoke bars(A) for yourself and put them on your neck.(B)

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So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of my servant(A) Nebuchadnezzar,(B) king of Babylon. I have even given him the wild animals to serve him. All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will enslave him.(C)

“‘“As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and does not place its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish by sword, famine, and plague—this is the Lord’s declaration—until through him I have destroyed it. So you should not listen to your prophets, diviners,(D) dreamers, fortune-tellers,(E) or sorcerers(F) who say to you, ‘Don’t serve the king of Babylon!’ 10 They are prophesying a lie(G) to you so that you will be removed from your land. I will banish you, and you will perish. 11 But as for the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it in its own land, and that nation will cultivate[a] it and reside in it. This is the Lord’s declaration.”’”

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  1. 27:11 Lit work

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