1. Isaiah 14:28–29 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What do the images of the serpent’s root, the adder, and the flying fiery serpent represent?

Isaiah 14:28–29 (ESV)

28 In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:

These represent ever-worsening enemies who were to follow. For example, Sargon II, who reigned from 721 BC, carried out several attacks on various Philistine cities, according to Assyrian inscriptions.

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