Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 4:18
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:
18. the water under the earth ] The Hebrews conceived the sea not only as lower than and round the earth, but as passing beneath it (the earth being established or fixed over it) and so forming the source of all fountains, many of which in Syria are salt, and of all streams. Cp. Psa 24:2; Psa 36:6, the great deep; Amo 7:4; Jon 2:3-6, and see below on Deu 33:13.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,…. As serpents by many; and indeed that creature is introduced into almost all the idolatries of the Heathens, which seems to take its rise from the serpent Satan made use of to deceive our first parents:
the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth; as the crocodile and hippopotamus, or river horse, by the Egyptians; and Dagon and Derceto, supposed to be figures in the form of a fish, among the Phoenicians.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Deu 4:18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:
Ver. 18. The likeness of any fish. ] As was Dagon, the god of the Philistines, whence he had his name.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Eze 8:10 – every