1 Kings 12:11 (KJV)

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And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke I will add to your yoke my father hath chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions

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I will add. Ex 1:13 Ex 1:14 Ex 5:5-9 Ex 5:18 1Sa 8:18 2Ch 16:10 Isa 58:6 Jer 27:11 Jer 28:13 Jer 28:14

scorpions. 1Ki 12:14 Eze 2:6 Re 9:3-10

but I will chastise.Should you rebel or become disaffected, my father's whip shall be a scorpion in my hand. His was chastisement, mine shall be punishment. Celsius and Hiller conjecture that {âkrabbim} denotes a thorny kind of shrub, whose prickles are of a venomous nature, called by the Arabs scorpion thorns, from the exquisite pain which they inflict. But the Chaldee renders it {margenin,} and the Syriac {moragyai,} i.e., [maragnai,] scourges; and in the parallel place of Chronicles the Arabic has {saut,} a scourge. Isidore, and after him Calmet and others, assert that the scorpion was a sort of severe whip, the lashes of which were armed with knots or points that sunk into and tore the flesh.

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