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    "figure_name": "Scorpion and Sting Imagery",
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    "alternate_names": "Sting imagery; scorpion imagery; venom imagery; torment imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Scorpion and sting imagery uses venomous pain, desert danger, and piercing torment to describe hostile oppression, demonic affliction, deadly threat, and Christ’s victory over death’s sting.",
    "technical_definition": "A pain-and-danger motif in which scorpions, stings, or venomous torment signify oppressive severity, hostile spiritual danger, apocalyptic affliction, or the defeated power of death and sin.",
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      "reference": "Deut. 8:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought",
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      "reference": "1 Kgs. 12:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I will chastise you with scorpions",
      "explanation": "Scorpion language becomes a metaphor for harsh oppression under Rehoboam’s threatened rule.",
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      "reference": "2 Chr. 10:11",
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      "reference": "Ezek. 2:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "though scorpions be with thee",
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      "reference": "Luke 10:19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "power to tread on serpents and scorpions",
      "explanation": "Scorpion imagery represents hostile spiritual danger under Christ-given authority.",
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      "reference": "Luke 11:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?",
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      "reference": "Rev. 9:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power",
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      "reference": "Rev. 9:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 15:55",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "O death, where is thy sting?",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 15:56",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "The sting of death is sin",
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