17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; …
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-22)In these verses we have, I. God threatening the destruction of a sinful people. He has borne long with them, but they are still more and more provoking, and therefore now their ruin is resolved on: I will surely consume them (Jer. 8:13), consuming I will consume them , not only surely, but utterly, consume them, will follow them with one judgment after another, till they are quite consumed; it is…
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