Text: Isaiah 11:6-9
OT Text Referred to: Genesis 3:14
Subject: Blessing and divine favor
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 11:6-9 paints the complete peaceable kingdom vision — wolf with lamb, leopard with goat, infant at the cobra's den — culminating in "they will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain." This entire passage reverses the consequences of the Genesis 3:14 curse, where the serpent was cursed (אָרוּר, arur) and enmity placed between serpent and humanity. The four-verse unit systematically undoes the predatory violence that entered creation through the fall: the child leading dangerous animals (11:6), the infant playing safely at the viper's nest (11:8), all culminating in universal peace because "the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD" (11:9). The scope of restoration matches the scope of the original curse — cosmic in extent.