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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on 1 Kings 12:11

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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I will add: Exo 1:13, Exo 1:14, Exo 5:5-9, Exo 5:18; Sa1 8:18; Ch2 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 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., μαραγναι, 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: Kg1 12:14; Eze 2:6; Rev 9:3-10 3 Kings (1 Kings) 12:12
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