Isaiah 14:29 meaning and explanation

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

Isaiah 14:29, Berean Standard Bible

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Isaiah has just delivered an oracle against Babylon, and now, in the year King Ahaz died, he turns to Philistia. The Philistines had reason to celebrate: the rod that struck them, likely the Assyrian king or the Judean king Ahaz, had been broken.

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