Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Adder » A venomous serpent
“Dan shall be a [venomous] serpent in the way,
A fanged snake in the path,
That bites the horse’s heels,
So that his rider falls backward.
You will tread upon the lion and cobra;
The young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.
Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
Asp » Venom of, illustrates the speech of the wicked
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
“Their throat is an open grave;
They [habitually] deceive with their tongues.”
“The venom of asps is beneath their lips.”
or adder Asp » (venom of), of the speech of the wicked
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
“Their throat is an open grave;
They [habitually] deceive with their tongues.”
“The venom of asps is beneath their lips.”
Malice » Examples of
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
Now when they heard this [accusation and understood its implication], they were cut to the heart, and they began grinding their teeth [in rage] at him.
They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s webs;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from an egg which is crushed a viper breaks out.
And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which means Place of a Skull,
So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus also,
But he disdained laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were (his nationality); so Haman determined to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who lived throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
There is a generation (class of people) whose teeth are like swords
And whose jaw teeth are like knives,
To devour the afflicted from the earth
And the needy from among men.
Serpent » Venom of
Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the wineglass, when it goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
‘They will be wasted by hunger, and consumed by plague
And a bitter destruction;
And I will send the teeth of beasts against them,
With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
“He sucks the poison of vipers [which ill-gotten wealth contains];
The viper’s tongue slays him.
Then [Paul simply] shook off the small creature into the fire and suffered no evil effects. However, they were waiting, expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead; but when they had watched him a long time and saw nothing fatal or harmful come to him, they changed their minds and kept saying over and over that he was a god.
Serpents » Evil men compared to
Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
So he began saying to the crowds who were coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath [of God that is] to come?
Serpents » Illustrative » (sharp tongue of,) of malice of the wicked
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
Slander » Instances of » Of david, by his enemies
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
For I have heard the slander and whispering of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they schemed together against me,
They plotted to take away my life.
Slander » Is venomous
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.