Beeline cannot run multiple statements in the same row

I'm trying to switch from hive cli to beeline and found the below working with hive cli, but not with beeline.

This works in hive cli:
$ hive -e "USE my_db;SHOW TABLES;"

The same does not work in beeline:
$ beeline -u jdbc:hive2://my_server.com -n my_user -p my_password -e "USE my_db;SHOW TABLES;"
Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: ParseException line 1:9 missing EOF at ';' near 'my_db' (state=42000,code=40000)
Beeline version 0.12.0-cdh5.1.3 by Apache Hive

I have also tried with beeline -f [filename]
The issue is the same, except when the two statements are listed in separate lines in the file supplied via the -f parameter.

So when using
beeline -f my.hql

This works:
my.hql:
USE my_db;
SHOW TABLES;

This does not work:
my.hql:
USE my_db;SHOW TABLES;

$ beeline -u jdbc:hive2://my_server.com -n my_user -p my_password -f my.hql
Connected to: Apache Hive (version 0.12.0-cdh5.1.3)
Driver: Hive JDBC (version 0.12.0-cdh5.1.3)
Transaction isolation: TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ
Beeline version 0.12.0-cdh5.1.3 by Apache Hive
0: jdbc:hive2://my_server.com> USE my_db;SHOW TABLES;
Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: ParseException line 1:9 missing EOF at ';' near 'my_db' (state=42000,code=40000)
Closing: org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveConnection

How to reproduce:
Run any type of multiple statements with beeline where the statements are in the same line separated by ; whether using "beeline -e [statement]" or "beeline -f [file]"