Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
"The three forms of serpent life (...) may represent the three Assyrian kings named above (Tiglath-pileser,Sargon, Sennacherib), from whose invasions the Philistines were to suf...