the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
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The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
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the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 4:18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth…
Deu 4:18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:
Ver. 18. The likeness of any fish.] As was Dagon, the god of the Philistines, whence he had his name.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,....…
The likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,.... As serpents by many; and indeed that creature is introduced into almost all the idolatries of the Heathens, which seems to take its rise from the serpent Satan made use of to deceive our first parents:
the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth; as the crocodile and hippopotamus, or river horse, by the Egyptians; and Dagon and Derceto, supposed to be figures in the form of a fish, among the Phoenicians.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. the water under the earth] The Hebrews conceived…
18. the water under the earth] The Hebrews conceived the sea not only as lower than and round the earth, but as passing beneath it (the earth being established or fixed over it) and so forming the source of all fountains, many of which in Syria are salt, and of all streams. Cp. Psa_24:2; Psa_36:6, the great deep; Amo_7:4; Jon_2:3-6, and see below on Deu_33:13.
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