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1 Kings 12:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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 scorpionsk.

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Ezek. 2:6• ⁶And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, and be not afraid of their words; for briars and thorns are with thee, and thou dwellest among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, and be not dismayed at their faces; for they are a rebellious house. (Ezek. 2:6)

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Scorpion (Aqrab, σκορπίος),

Yoke

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I will add.

Ex. 1:13‑14• ¹³And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with harshness;
¹⁴and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness. (Ex. 1:13‑14)

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Ex. 5:5‑9,18• ⁵And Pharaoh said, Behold the people of the land are now many, and ye wish to make them rest from their burdens.
⁶And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
⁷Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
⁸And the number of the bricks they have made heretofore shall ye lay upon them: ye shall not diminish any of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
⁹Let them put heavier labour on the men, that they may be taken up with it, and not regard vain words.
¹⁸And now go--work! and straw shall not be given you, and ye shall deliver the measure of bricks. (Ex. 5:5‑9,18)

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1 Sam. 8:18• ¹⁸And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye have chosen; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day. (1 Sam. 8:18)

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2 Chron. 16:10• ¹⁰And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was enraged with him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. (2 Chron. 16:10)

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Isa. 58:6• ⁶Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke? (Isa. 58:6)

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Jer. 27:11• ¹¹But the nation that bringeth its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serveth him, will I let remain still in its own land, saith Jehovah; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. (Jer. 27:11)

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Jer. 28:13‑14• ¹³Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast broken the yokes of wood, and thou hast made in their place yokes of iron.
¹⁴For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also. (Jer. 28:13‑14)

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., [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.

1 Kings 12:14• ¹⁴and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but *I* will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but *I* will chastise you with scorpions. (1 Kings 12:14)

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Ezek. 2:6• ⁶And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, and be not afraid of their words; for briars and thorns are with thee, and thou dwellest among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, and be not dismayed at their faces; for they are a rebellious house. (Ezek. 2:6)

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Rev. 9:3‑10• ³And out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them as the scorpions of the earth have power;
⁴and it was said to them, that they should not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but the men who have not the seal of God on their foreheads:
⁵and it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
⁶And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.
⁷And the likenesses of the locusts were like to horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men;
⁸and they had hair as women's hair, and their teeth were as of lions,
⁹and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to war;
¹⁰and they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and their power was in their tails to hurt men five months. (Rev. 9:3‑10)

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and whereas my father laid a heavy yoke upon you, *I* will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but *I* will chastise you with scorpionsa.

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A kind of whip furnished with knotted points.