Numbers 21:9
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard: and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
10And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.
Cross References
2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: And he brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn 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 supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his 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, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
John 12:32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.
Romans 5:20And the law came in beside, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:
2 Corinthians 5:21Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might 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 →