Bible Cross References
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Exodus 1:13
and made their lives miserable by forcing them into cruel slavery. They made them work on their building projects and in their fields, and they had no pity on them.
Exodus 1:14
Exodus 5:5-9
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You people have become more numerous than the Egyptians. And now you want to stop working!"
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That same day the king commanded the Egyptian slave drivers and the Israelite foremen:
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"Stop giving the people straw for making bricks. Make them go and find it for themselves.
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But still require them to make the same number of bricks as before, not one brick less. They don't have enough work to do, and that is why they keep asking me to let them go and offer sacrifices to their God!
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Make them work harder and keep them busy, so that they won't have time to listen to a pack of lies."
Exodus 5:18-9
1 Samuel 8:18
When that time comes, you will complain bitterly because of your king, whom you yourselves chose, but the LORD will not listen to your complaints."
2 Chronicles 16:10
This made Asa so angry with the prophet that he had him put in chains. It was at this same time that Asa began treating some of the people cruelly.
Isaiah 58:6
"The kind of fasting I want is this: Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free.
Jeremiah 27:11
But if any nation submits to the king of Babylonia and serves him, then I will let it stay on in its own land, to farm it and live there. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 28:13
to go and tell Hananiah: "The LORD has said that you may be able to break a wooden yoke, but he will replace it with an iron yoke.
Jeremiah 28:14
The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, has said that he will put an iron yoke on all these nations and that they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. The LORD has said that he will make even the wild animals serve Nebuchadnezzar."
scorpions
1 Kings 12:14
as the younger men had advised. He said, "My father placed heavy burdens on you; I will make them even heavier. He beat you with whips; I'll flog you with bullwhips!"
Ezekiel 2:6
"But you, mortal man, must not be afraid of them or of anything they say. They will defy and despise you; it will be like living among scorpions. Still, don't be afraid of those rebels or of anything they say.
Revelation 9:3-10
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Locusts came down out of the smoke upon the earth, and they were given the same kind of power that scorpions have.
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They were told not to harm the grass or the trees or any other plant; they could harm only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads.
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The locusts were not allowed to kill these people, but only to torture them for five months. The pain caused by the torture is like the pain caused by a scorpion's sting.
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During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.
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The locusts looked like horses ready for battle; on their heads they had what seemed to be crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.
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Their hair was like women's hair, their teeth were like lions' teeth.
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Their chests were covered with what looked like iron breastplates, and the sound made by their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.
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They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months.