They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-of-the-Covenant, and with this money he hired a bunch of worthless scoundrels to join him.

Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. There he attracted a group of worthless men, and they went around with him.

People who were oppressed or in debt or dissatisfied went to him, about four hundred men in all, and he became their leader.

A worthless bunch of nameless nobodies! They were driven out of the land.

I do not keep company with worthless people; I have nothing to do with hypocrites.

A hard-working farmer has plenty to eat, but it is stupid to waste time on useless projects.

A hard-working farmer has plenty to eat. People who waste time will always be poor.

But some Jews were jealous and gathered worthless loafers from the streets and formed a mob. They set the whole city in an uproar and attacked the home of a man named Jason, in an attempt to find Paul and Silas and bring them out to the people.

For there are many, especially the converts from Judaism, who rebel and deceive others with their nonsense.

that some worthless people of your nation have misled the people of their town to worship gods that you have never worshiped before.

Get a couple of scoundrels to accuse him to his face of cursing God and the king. Then take him out of the city and stone him to death."

The two scoundrels publicly accused him of cursing God and the king, and so he was taken outside the city and stoned to death.

When the people saw that the king would not listen to them, they shouted, "Down with David and his family! What have they ever done for us? People of Israel, let's go home! Let Rehoboam look out for himself !" So the people of Israel rebelled,

Rehoboam ruled in Jerusalem and increased his power as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshiped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, from the land of Ammon.

A country is in trouble when its king is a youth and its leaders feast all night long.

The LORD will let the people be governed by immature boys.

Do not be like children in your thinking, my friends; be children so far as evil is concerned, but be grown up in your thinking.

There has been enough time for you to be teachers---yet you still need someone to teach you the first lessons of God's message. Instead of eating solid food, you still have to drink milk.

When King Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he called together 180,000 of the best soldiers from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah. He intended to go to war and restore his control over the northern tribes of Israel.

to give this message to King Rehoboam and to all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin: