Numbers 21:9
And Moses maketh a serpent of brass, and setteth it on the ensign, and it hath been, if the serpent hath bitten any man, and he hath looked expectingly unto the serpent of brass — he hath lived.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10And the sons of Israel journey, and encamp in Oboth.
Cross References
2 Kings 18:4he hath turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cut down the shrine, and beaten down the brazen serpent that Moses made, for unto these days were the sons of Israel making perfume to it, and he calleth it 'a piece of brass.'
Zechariah 12:10And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.
John 3:14'And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth 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 unto myself.'
Romans 5:20And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,
2 Corinthians 5:21for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, 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 →