Numbers 21:9
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole; and it came to pass, if a serpent had bitten any man, and he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.
Cross References
2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and broke in pieces the serpent of brass that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel burned incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Zechariah 12:10And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look on me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.
John 3:14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, thus must the Son of man be lifted up,
John 12:32and I, if I be lifted up out of the earth, will draw all to me.
Romans 5:20But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,
2 Corinthians 5:21Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God's righteousness in him.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 21:5-10
The Brazen Serpent. ( b. c. 1452.) 4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. 6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel… Read the whole commentary →