Numbers 21:9
Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
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In Context
10The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
Cross References
2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
Zechariah 12:10I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
John 3:14As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
John 12:32And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to myself."
Romans 5:20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
2 Corinthians 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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 →