* I will add.
Ex 1:13,14 5:5-9,18 1Sa 8:18 2Ch 16:10 Isa 58:6 Jer 27:11
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 {(836b)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.
14 Eze 2:6 Re 9:3-10
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