OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 14:29

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Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

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Verse 29. Rod. Achaz.—Bird. Ezechias will openly attack thee. 4 Kennicott. 18:8. Calmet.—Prot. “shall be a fiery flying serpent,” ( Bible.) like that erected by Moses. Numbers 21:9. Sennacherib and Assaraddon shall lay waste Philistia. verse 31 chapter 20:1. Calmet.—Though Achaz be dead, Ezechias and Ozias will destroy more of that nation. 4 Kennicott. 18:8 and 2 Chronicles 26. Worthington.

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