1 Kgs 12:11

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I will add.

Exod 1:13; Exod 1:14; Exod 5:5-9; Exod 5:18; 1Sam 8:18; 2Chr 16:10; Isa 58:6; Jer 27:11 Jer 28:13; Jer 28:14

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 {�rabbim} 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.

scorpions.

1Kgs 12:14; Ezek 2:6; Rev 9:3-10