Numbers 21:6-20

The Bronze Serpent

6 1The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and 2they bit the people, so that 3many people of Israel died.
7 4So the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and you; 5intercede with the LORD, that He may remove the serpents from us." And Moses interceded for the people.
8 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a 6fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live."
9 And Moses made a 7bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.
10 8Now the sons of Israel moved out and camped in Oboth.
11 They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is opposite * Moab, to the east *.
12 9From there they set out and camped in Wadi Zered.
13 From there they journeyed and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites, 10for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14 Therefore * it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah, And the wadis of the Arnon,
15 And the slope of the wadis That extends to the site of 11Ar, And leans to the border of Moab."
16 12From there they continued to Beer, that is the well where the LORD said to Moses, "Assemble the people, that I may give them water."
17 13Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Sing to it!
18 "The well, which the leaders sank, Which the nobles of the people dug, With the scepter and with their staffs." And from the wilderness they continued to Mattanah,
19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which overlooks * * the wasteland.

Cross References 13

  • 1. Deuteronomy 8:15
  • 2. Jeremiah 8:17
  • 3. 1 Corinthians 10:9
  • 4. Numbers 11:2; Psalms 78:34; Isaiah 26:16; Hosea 5:15
  • 5. Exodus 8:8; 1 Samuel 12:19; Acts 8:24
  • 6. Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 30:6; John 3:14
  • 7. 2 Kings 18:4; John 3:14, 15
  • 8. Numbers 33:43, 44
  • 9. Numbers 33:45
  • 10. Numbers 22:36; Judges 11:18
  • 11. Numbers 21:28; Deut 2:9, 18, 29
  • 12. Numbers 33:46-49
  • 13. Exodus 15:1; Psalms 105:2

Footnotes 5

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