Leviathan, 'that crooked serpent,' gets named as a specific creature God will eventually punish, tying this chapter's imagery back to ancient near eastern chaos-monster mythology.
Mystical & Allegorical<b>on leviathan the barlike serpent</b> Jonathan renders: On the king who aggrandized himself like Pharaoh the first king, and upon a king who was as haughty as Sennacherib the second king. בָּרִיחַ is an expression of ‘straight’ like a bar, since he...
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