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Serpents
Created by God - Job 26:13
Characterised as subtle - Ge 3:1; Mt 10:16
Called crooked - Job 26:13; Isa 27:1
Unclean and unfit for food - Mt 7:10
INFEST
- Hedges
- Ec 10:8- Holes in walls
- Am 5:19- Deserts
- De 8:15Produced from eggs - Isa 59:5
Cursed above all creatures - Ge 3:14
Doomed to creep on their belly - Ge 3:14
Doomed to eat their food mingled with dust - Ge 3:14; Isa 65:25; Mic 7:17
Many kinds of poisonous - De 32:24; Ps 58:4
All kinds of, can be tamed - Jas 3:7
Were often enchanted or fascinated - Ec 10:11
Dangerous to travellers - Ge 49:17
Man's aversion and hatred to - Ge 3:15
Often sent as a punishment - Nu 21:6; De 32:24; 1Co 10:9
MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH
- Moses' rod turned into
- Ex 4:3; 7:9,15- Israelites cured by looking at one of brass
- Nu 21:8,9; Joh 3:14,15- Power over, given to the disciples
- Mr 16:18; Lu 10:19ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of the devil
- Ge 3:1; 2Co 11:3; Re 12:9; 20:2- Of hypocrites
- Mt 23:33- Of the tribe of Dan
- Ge 49:17- Of enemies who harass and destroy
- Isa 14:29; Jer 8:17- (Sharp tongue of,) of malice of the wicked
- Ps 140:3- (Poisonous bite of,) of baneful effects of wine
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