10. They replied, “This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.’
11. Tell them, ‘My father placed heavy burdens on you; I will make them even heavier. He beat you with a whip; I'll flog you with a horsewhip!’ ”
12. Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to King Rehoboam, as he had instructed them.