1 Raja-raja 12:11

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka sekarang, ayahku telah membebankan kepada kamu tanggungan yang berat, tetapi aku akan menambah tanggungan kamu; ayahku telah menghajar kamu dengan cambuk, tetapi aku akan menghajar kamu dengan cambuk yang berduri besi."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka sekarang, ayahku telah membebankan kepada kamu tanggungan yang berat, tetapi aku akan menambah tanggungan kamu; ayahku telah menghajar kamu dengan cambuk, tetapi aku akan menghajar kamu dengan cambuk yang berduri besi."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka jikalau kiranya ayahku sudah menanggungkan atasmu suatu tanggungan yang berat, niscaya aku menambahi akan tanggungan kamu itu lagi; dan jikalau ayahku sudah menyiksai kamu dengan cemeti, niscaya aku akan menyiksai kamu kelak dengan kalajengking.

Contextual Overview

¹ And Rehoboam went to Siche: for all Israel were come to Sichem, to make him king. ² And when Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat whiche was yet in Egypt, heard of it: for he fled to Egypt from the presence of king Solomon, and dwelt in Egypt. ³ So they sent, and called him: and Ieroboam and all the congregation of Is-Israel came, & spake vnto Rehoboam, saying: ⁴ Thy father made our yocke greeuous, nowe therfore make thou the greenous seruice of thy father and his sore yocke whiche he put vpon vs, lighter, and we will serue thee. ⁵ And he sayde vnto them: Depart yet for the space of three dayes, and then come againe to me. And the people departed. ⁶ And king Rehoboam toke counsel with the olde men that stoode before Solomon his father, while he yet lyued, and sayd: What counsel geue ye, that I may haue matter to aunswere this people? ⁷ And they sayd vnto him: If thou be a seruaunt vnto this people this day, and folowe their mindes, and aunswere them, & speake kinde wordes to them, they will be thy seruauntes for euer. ⁸ But he forsoke the counsell that the old men had geuen him, and called vnto his counsel young men, that were growe vp with him and wayted on him, ⁹ And he sayde vnto them: What counsell geue ye, that we may aunswere this people? for they haue communed with me, saying: Make the yocke whiche thy father did put vpon vs, lighter. ¹⁰ And ye young men that were growen vp with him, spake vnto him, saying: Thus shalt thou speake vnto this people that haue sayd vnto thee, thy father made our yocke heauy, but make thou it vs lighter: Euen thus shalt thou say vnto them, My litle finger shalbe wayghtier then my father was in the loynes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will add: Exodus 1:13, Exodus 1:14, Exodus 5:5-9, Exodus 5:18, 1 Samuel 8:18, 2 Chronicles 16:10, Isaiah 58:6, Jeremiah 27:11, Jeremiah 28:13, Jeremiah 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., לבסבדםבי, 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, Ezekiel 2:6, Revelation 9:3-10

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 10:10 - My little finger Proverbs 13:10 - Only

Cross-References

Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the lande, vnto the place of Sichem, vnto the plaine of Moreh. And the Chanaanite [was] then in the lande.

Genesis 12:7
And the Lorde appearyng vnto Abram, sayd, Unto thy seede wyl I geue this lande: And there buylded he an aulter vnto the Lorde whiche appeared vnto hym.

Genesis 12:14
And so when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman, for she was very fayre.

Genesis 26:7
And the men of the place asked [him] of his wyfe. And he sayde, she is my sister: for he feared to say, she is my wyfe, lest the men of the place shoulde haue kylled hym, because of Rebecca, whiche was beautifull to the eye.

Genesis 29:17
Lea was tender eyed: but Rachel was beautifull and well fauoured.

2 Samuel 11:2
And in an euening tyde, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the kinges palace, and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe, and the woman was very beautifull to loke vpon.

Proverbs 21:30
There is no wysdome, there is no vnderstanding, there is no counsayle against the Lorde.

Song of Solomon 1:14
a cluster of Camphire in the vineyardes of Engaddi is my loue vnto me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now, whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke,.... Which was putting words into his mouth, owning the charge and accusation brought against his father, as he did, 1 Kings 12:14, which was very unbecoming, if true; unless this is said according to the sense of the people:

I will add to your yoke; make it heavier, lay more taxes on them:

my father hath chastised you with whips; which was putting a lie into his mouth, and which he uttered, 1 Kings 12:14 for no instance of severity exercised on the people in general can be given during the whole reign of Solomon:

but I will chastise you with scorpions; treat them more roughly, and with greater rigour: whips may mean smaller ones, these horse whips, as in the Targum; which gave an acute pain, like the sting of scorpions, or made a wound like one. Ben Gersom says, these were rods with thorns on them, which pierced and gave much pain. Weemse h thinks these are alluded to by thorns in the sides, Numbers 33:55, for whipping with them was about the sides, and not along the back. Abarbinel calls them iron thorns, rods that had iron prongs or rowels to them, which tore the flesh extremely. Isidore i says, a rod that is smooth is called a rod, but, if knotty and prickled, it is rightly called a scorpion, because it makes a wound in the body arched or crooked. Pliny k ascribes the invention of this sort of scorpions to the Cretians.

h Christian Synagogue, paragraph 6. diatrib. 2. p. 190. i Origin. l. 5. c. 27. p. 39. k Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 56.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Scorpions - By this word some understand whips having leaden balls at the ends of their lashes with hooks projecting from them; others the thorny stem of the eggplant, or “the scorpion plant.” But it seems best to regard the expression as a figure of speech.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 12:11. Chastise you with scorpions — Should you rebel, or become disaffected, my father's whip shall be a scorpion in my hand. His was chastisement, mine shall be punishment. St. Isidore, and after him Calmet and others, assert that the scorpion was a sort of severe whip, the lashes of which were armed with iron points, that sunk into and tore the flesh. We know that the scorpion was a military engine among the Romans for shooting arrows, which, being poisoned, were likened to the scorpion's sting, and the wound it inflicted.