Thematic Bible: A venomous serpent


Thematic Bible



Dan shall be a serpent in the way, and an adder in the path, and bite the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

Thou shalt go upon the Lion and Adder, the young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.

They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,


It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder.


Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps.

The child while he sucketh, shall have a desire to the serpents nest, and when he is weaned, he shall put his hand in to the Cockatrice den.

He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him:

The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body.