Reptiles
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The serpent, probably a snake, is referred to many times throughout the Bible. Serpant -Satan appears to Eve in the form of Ge 3:1-15; 2Co 11:3, -Subtlety of Ge 3:1; Ec 10:8; Mt 10:16, -Curse upon Ge 3:14,15; 49:17, -Feeds upon the dust Ge 3:14; Isa 65:25; Mic 7:17, -Unfit for food Mt 7:10, -Venom of De 32:24,33; Job 20:16; Ps 58:4; 140:3; Pr 23:31,32; Ac28:5,6, -The staff of Moses transformed into Ex 4:3; 7:15, -Fiery (poisonous), sent as a plague upon the Israelites Nu 21:6,7; De 8:15; 1Co 10:9, -The wound of, miraculously healed by looking upon the bronze snake, erected by Moses Nu 21:8,9, -The charming of Ps 58:4,5; Ec 10:11; Jer 8:17, -Mentioned in Solomon's riddle Pr 30:19, -Constriction of Re 9:19, -Sea serpent Am 9:3, -The seventy disciples (the best mss have "seventy-two") endued with power over Lu 10:19, -The apostles given power over Mr 16:18; Ac 28:5, -FIGURATIVE Isa 14:29; 30:6; 65:25.
Vipers: In Job 20:16, Isa. 30:6; 59:5, the Heb. word eph'eh is thus rendered. The Hebrew word, however, probably denotes a species of poisonous serpents known by the Arabic name of 'el ephah. Tristram has identified it with the sand viper, a species of small size common in sandy regions, and frequently found under stones by the shores of the Dead Sea. It is rapid in its movements, and highly poisonous. In the New Testament echidne is used (Matt. 3:7; 12:34; 23:33) for any poisonous snake. The viper mentioned in Acts 28:3 was probably the vipera aspis, or the Mediterranean viper.
Crocodiles in the Bible: Shihor-Libnath; black-white, a stream on the borders of Asher, probably the modern Nahr Zerka, i.e., the "crocodile brook," or "blue river", which rises in the Carmel range and enters the Mediterranean a little to the north of Caesarea (Josh. 19:26). Crocodiles are still found in the Zerka. Thomson suspects "that long ages ago some Egyptians, accustomed to worship this ugly creature, settled here (viz., at Caesarea), and brought their gods with them. Once here they would not easily be exterminated" (The Land and the Book).
The plague of the frogs: 8:1 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Let my people go, that they may serve me. 8:2 And if thou refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. 8:3 And the river shall swarm with frogs, and they shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bedroom, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy bondmen, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs. 8:4 And the frogs shall come up both upon thee and upon thy people, and upon all thy bondmen.
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