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So, an old man now, he was enticed by women into the worship of alien gods, and his heart was not true to the Lord, his own God, like his father David’s before him. (1 Kings 11, 4)
and set the Lord’s will at defiance, instead of shewing his father’s loyalty. (1 Kings 11, 6)
Only, for the love of thy father David, I will not do it in thy life-time; it is thy son that shall lose his kingdom. (1 Kings 11, 12)
and meanwhile Adad, still in early boyhood, took refuge in Egypt, under the charge of certain Edomites, that had been his father’s servants. (1 Kings 11, 17)
And this is the story of his rebellion against his master. At the time when Solomon was building Mello, and filling up the gap his father had left in the walls of David’s Keep, (1 Kings 11, 27)
He has forsaken me, to worship Astarthe, goddess of the Sidonians, Chamos, god of Moab, and Moloch, god of Ammon; he has not followed the path I bade him follow, by doing my will and keeping command and decree of mine, like his father David before him. (1 Kings 11, 33)
Thy father, they said, made us bear a bitter yoke. That cruel sway of his, that hard yoke, do thou mitigate, and we will be thy servants on that condition. (1 Kings 12, 4)
king Roboam asked advice first of the older men that had been courtiers in the life-time of his father, king Solomon; what answer should he make to the people? (1 Kings 12, 6)
How think you, he asked, I should make answer to the people’s request, that I would lighten the yoke my father laid on them? (1 Kings 12, 9)
And these, men of his own upbringing, gave him advice in their turn. Do they complain that thy father laid a heavy yoke on them, and ask for relief? Then tell them there is more strength in thy little finger than in all the breadth of thy father’s back; (1 Kings 12, 10)
if his yoke fell heavy on them, thine shall be heavier still; if thy father’s weapon was the lash, thine shall be the scorpion.✻ (1 Kings 12, 11)
with such words as the younger men had prescribed to him. If my father’s yoke fell heavy on you, he told them, mine shall be heavier still; if his weapon was the lash, mine shall be the scorpion. (1 Kings 12, 14)
