Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 11:8
play—literally, "delight" himself in sport.
cockatrice—a fabulous serpent supposed to be hatched from the egg of a cock. The Hebrew means a kind of adder, more venomous than the asp; BOCHART supposes the basilisk to be meant, which was thought to poison even with its breath.
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