Text: Isaiah 11:6
OT Text Referred to: Genesis 3:14
Subject: curse removed with the exception of the serpent
Source: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Isa 11:1-10 — A Shoot from the Stump of Jesse
Significance: Isaiah 11:6 envisions predators and prey coexisting peacefully — wolf with lamb, leopard with goat, child with serpent — directly reversing the enmity and violence that entered creation through the curse of Genesis 3:14. In Genesis, the serpent is cursed (אָרוּר, arur) above all animals, and enmity is established between the serpent's seed and the woman's seed (3:15). Isaiah's peaceable kingdom vision depicts the messianic age as the undoing of this primal curse: the hostility between humans and animals, and the predatory violence within the animal world, is healed under the Davidic Branch's reign. The child safely playing at the cobra's den (Isa 11:8) specifically answers the serpent's threat established in Eden.