Numbers 21:9
Moses made a snake out of bronze and put it on a pole. Those who looked at it did live.
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10The Israelites left and camped at Oboth.
Cross References
2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, smashed the stone idols, and cut down the Asherah poles. He ground to pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, because up to then the Israelites had been sacrificing offerings to it. It was called Nehushtan.
Zechariah 12:10I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They will look at me whom they pierced, and they will wail in grief over him, mourning as for an only child, weeping bitterly as for a firstborn.
John 3:14Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so the Son of man must be lifted up,
John 12:32But when I am lifted up from the earth I will attract everyone to me.”
Romans 5:20When the law was introduced, sin became even more obvious. But while sin became much more obvious, grace became even more obvious!
2 Corinthians 5:21God made Jesus, who never personally sinned, experience the consequences of sin so that we could have a character that is good and right just as God is good and right.
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 →