Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



“Dan shall be a serpent in the way,
A horned 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 down.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,


At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.










They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which means Place of a Skull,

But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;

But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

There is a kind of man whose teeth are like swords
And his jaw teeth like knives,
To devour the afflicted from the earth
And the needy from among men.


Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly; At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,


They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague
And bitter destruction;
And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,
With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

“Their wine is the venom of serpents,
And the deadly poison of cobras.

“He sucks the poison of cobras;
The viper’s tongue slays him.

However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm. But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.


They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,



You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

So he began saying to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?





Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

For I have heard the slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.

They opened their mouth wide against me;
They said, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”

My enemies speak evil against me,
“When will he die, and his name perish?”



If the serpent bites before being charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.