15And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)We have here an account of this war, so happily finished in heaven, or in the church, as it was again renewed and carried on in the wilderness, the place to which the church had fled, and where she had been for some time secured by the special care of her God and Saviour. Observe, I. The warning given of the distress and calamity that should fall upon the inhabitants of the world in general, throu…
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