Scorpion
6 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
A Venomous Insect Common in the Wilderness Through Which the People of Israel Journeyed
- Deuteronomy 8:15 He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
Power Over, Given to the Seventy Disciples (The Best Mss Have “Seventy-Two”)
- Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.
Sting of, Located in the Tail
- Revelation 9:10 They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.
Symbolical
- Revelation 9:3 And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
- Revelation 9:5 The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
- Revelation 9:10 They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.
Unfit for Food
- Luke 11:12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Related topics
Scorpion of CrueltyScorpion of EnemiesThe Scorpion
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.