Thematic Bible: Cockatrice
Thematic Bible
Cockatrice » Figurative
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
And the nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
They hatch viper's eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
Rejoice not, all of Philistia, because the rod of him that struck you is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.