Adder

How Nave’s arranged it

• A venomous serpentGenesis 49:17Psalms 91:13Psalms 58:4Psalms 140:3Proverbs 23:32

The passages, in Bible order (5)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 5 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 49:17

   He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 49:172 voices

   “Dan--"a judge." a serpent . . . an adder--A serpent, an adder, implies subtlety and stratagem; such was pre-eminently the character of Samson, the most illustrious of its judges.

   “(Verses 16 and following.) And he shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Let Dan be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward: thy salvation, O Lord, I will wait for.

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2. Psalms 58:4

   Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

   ›Commentary on Psalms 58:42 voices

   “Ver. 4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent. Is man also a poisonous reptile? Yes, and his venom is even as that of a serpent. The viper has but death for the body in his fangs; but unregenerate man carries poison under his tongue, destructive to the nobler nature. They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear.

   “Though it appears that the serpent's nature is being delineated in the foregoing, rather, every vessel of evil is being delineated, and every serpent of depravity who casts himself down on the belly and hides his poison inside himself and ponders it inwardly in his breast. He25 is slippery in his thoughts, he advances in his deceits and wraps himself in his deceptions; he is always moving and stirring his poisons by thought and treading on his belly as well, that is, the seedbed of his heart.

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3. Psalms 91:13

   You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 91:132 voices

   “. Ver. 13. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder. Over force and fraud shalt thou march victoriously; bold opponents and treacherous adversaries shall alike be trodden down. When our shoes are iron and brass lions and adders are easily enough crushed beneath our heel. The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. The strongest foe in power, and the most mysterious in cunning, shall be conquered by the man of God. Not only from stones in the way, but from serpents also, shall we be safe.

   “Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder,....

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4. Psalms 140:3

   They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

   ›Commentary on Psalms 140:32 voices

   “. Ver. 3. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. The rapid motion of a viper's tongue gives you the idea of its sharpening it; even thus do the malicious move their tongues at such a rate that one might suppose them to be in the very act of wearing them to a point, or rubbing them to a keen edge.

   “The venom of asps is under their lips. For they seem to have words of friendship, yet they are full of death-dealing poison.

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5. Proverbs 23:32

   In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

   ›Commentary on Proverbs 23:322 voices

   “At the last it biteth like a serpent,....

   “To take off the force of the temptation that there is in the pleasure of the sin, foresee the punishment of it, and what it will at last end in if repentance prevent not. In its latter end it bites (so the word is); think therefore what will be in the end thereof. But the inspired writer chooses to specify those pernicious consequences of this sin which are present and sensible.

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