Isaiah 14:29
ContextNETBible | Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! 1 For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root, and its fruit will be a darting adder. 2 |
XREF | Jos 13:3; 1Sa 6:17,18; 2Ki 18:8; 2Ch 26:6; 2Ch 28:18; Pr 24:17; Isa 11:8; Isa 30:6; Eze 26:2; Eze 35:15; Ho 9:1; Ob 1:12; Mic 7:8; Zep 3:11 |
NET © Notes |
1 sn The identity of this “club” (also referred to as a “serpent” in the next line) is uncertain. It may refer to an Assyrian king, or to Ahaz. For discussion see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:331-32. The viper/adder referred to in the second half of the verse is his successor. 2 tn Heb “flying burning one.” The designation “burning one” may allude to the serpent’s appearance or the effect of its poisonous bite. (See the note at 6:2.) The qualifier “flying” probably refers to the serpent’s quick, darting movements, though one might propose a homonym here, meaning “biting.” (See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 1:332, n. 18.) Some might think in terms of a mythological flying, fire breathing dragon (cf. NAB “a flying saraph”; CEV “a flying fiery dragon”), but this proposal does not make good sense in 30:6, where the phrase “flying burning one” appears again in a list of desert animals. |