Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 14:29

29 Rejoyce not thou whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpents root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery slying serpent .

Most understand this of Uzziah, who did then much mischief, 2 Chron. 26. 6. But he was dead Thirty two years before this time, and therefore their Joy for his Death was long since past. Others understand it of Ahaz: But he was so far from smiting them, that he was smitten by them, as was noted on v. 27. It seems better to understand it more generally, of the Royal Race, or soregoing Kings of Iudah, who had been a terrible Scourge to them, whose Rod might be said to be broken, because that Scepter was come into the hands of slothful and degenerate Princes, such as Ahaz was, who had been lately broken by the Philistins, and who probably was alive when this Prophecy was delivered, because he here speaks of Hezekiah not as a present, but as a future King. It is said indeed, that this burden was in the year that Ahaz died: But so it might be, though it was before his Death.

From the Root and Race of David shall come Hezekiah, who, like a Serpent, shall sting thee to death, as he did, 2 Kings 18. 8.

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