Numbers 21:9
And Moses makes a serpent of bronze, and sets it on the ensign, and it has been, if the serpent has bitten any man, and he has looked expectingly to the serpent of bronze—he has lived.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10And the sons of Israel journey and encamp in Oboth.
Cross References
2 Kings 18:4he has turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cut down the Asherah, and beaten down the bronze serpent that Moses made, for up to these days the sons of Israel were making incense to it, and he calls it “a piece of bronze.”
Zechariah 12:10And I have poured on the house of David, || And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, || The Spirit of grace and supplications, || And they have looked to Me whom they pierced, || And they have mourned over Him, || Like a mourning over the only one, || And they have been in bitterness for Him, || Like a bitterness over the firstborn.
John 3:14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up,
John 12:32and I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.”
Romans 5:20And law came in, that the offense might abound, and where sin abounded, grace hyper-abounded,
2 Corinthians 5:21He made Him having not known sin [to be] sin in our behalf, that we may become the righteousness 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 →