Numbers 21:9
Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
10And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.
Cross References
2 Kings 18:4He destroyed the n high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan.
Zechariah 12:10And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.
John 3:14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:
John 12:32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to myself.
Romans 5:20Now the law entered in, that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.
2 Corinthians 5:21Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us, that we might be made the justice of God 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 →