1Ki 12:10-16 | TSK | e4.org | Thus shalt thou My little finger A proverbial mode of expression: "My little finger is thicker than my father's thigh." As much as the thigh surpasses the little finger in thickness, so much does my power exceed that of my father; and the use I shall make of it to oppress and tax you shall be in proportion. ; , , , ;

‏ 1 Kings 12:10-16

Thus shalt thou 2Sam 17:7-13

My little finger A proverbial mode of expression: "My little finger is thicker than my father's thigh." As much as the thigh surpasses the little finger in thickness, so much does my power exceed that of my father; and the use I shall make of it to oppress and tax you shall be in proportion. 2Chr 10:10-11; Prov 10:14, Prov 18:6-7, Prov 28:25, Prov 29:23; Isa 47:6

I will add Exod 1:13-14, Exod 5:5-9, Exod 5:18; 1Sam 8:18; 2Chr 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 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 1Kgs 12:14; Ezek 2:6; Rev 9:3-10

Come to me again 1Kgs 12:5; 2Chr 10:12-14

answered 1Kgs 20:6-11; Gen 42:7, Gen 42:30; Exod 5:2, Exod 10:28; Judg 12:1-6; 1Sam 20:10, 1Sam 20:30-31; 1Sam 25:10-11; 2Sam 19:43; Prov 10:11, Prov 10:32, Prov 15:1, Prov 18:23; Eccl 10:12; Jas 3:17

roughly Heb. hardly, Gen 16:6

forsook Prov 13:20

the counsel 2Chr 22:4-5; Esth 1:16-21, Esth 2:2-4; Prov 12:5; Isa 19:11-13; Dan 6:7

My father made 1Kgs 12:10-11; Prov 13:10, Prov 16:18, Prov 17:14; Eccl 7:8; Jas 3:14-18, Jas 4:1-2

the cause The cause of all this confusion and anarchy was Rehoboam's folly, cruelty, and despotic tyranny, and this was certainly not "from the Lord," nor does the original text speak this doctrine. For an elucidation of a similar passage, see note on 2Sam 24:1. It says, sibbah, (from savav, to turn, change), "the change or Revolution was from the Lord;" which is consistent with all the preceding declarations. God stirred up the people to revolt from a man who had neither skill nor humanity to govern them. God serves his own wise and righteous purpose by the imprudences and iniquities of men, and snares sinners in the work of their own hands. "He maketh the wrath of man to praise him." 1Kgs 12:24, 1Kgs 22:23; Deut 2:30; Judg 14:4; 2Chr 10:15, 2Chr 22:7, 2Chr 25:16, 2Chr 25:20; Ps 5:10; Amos 3:6; Acts 2:23, Acts 4:28

that he might 1Kgs 11:11, 1Kgs 11:29-38; 1Sam 15:29; 2Sam 17:14; 2Kgs 9:36, 2Kgs 10:10; Isa 14:13-17; Isa 46:10-11; Dan 4:35; John 19:23-24, John 19:28-29, John 19:32-37; Acts 3:17; Acts 13:27-29

What portion 2Sam 20:1; 2Chr 10:16

to your tents 1Kgs 22:17, 1Kgs 22:36

now see 1Kgs 11:13, 1Kgs 11:34, 1Kgs 11:36, 1Kgs 11:39; 2Sam 7:15-16; Ps 2:1-6, Ps 76:10, Ps 89:29-37, Ps 132:17; Isa 7:2, Isa 7:6-7, Isa 9:6-7; Jer 23:5-6, Jer 33:15-16, Jer 33:21; Luke 19:14, Luke 19:27

So Israel Judg 8:35; 2Sam 15:13, 2Sam 16:11