Numbers 21:4-9

The Bronze Snake

4 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea,[a] to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;
5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”
6 Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.
7 The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8 The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

Cross References 18

  • 1. Numbers 20:22
  • 2. Numbers 14:25; Deuteronomy 2:1; Deuteronomy 11:4
  • 3. S Numbers 20:21
  • 4. Deuteronomy 2:8; Judges 11:18
  • 5. Psalms 78:19
  • 6. Numbers 11:20
  • 7. S Exodus 14:11; Numbers 14:2,3
  • 8. Numbers 20:5
  • 9. S Numbers 11:5; Numbers 11:6
  • 10. ver 7; Deuteronomy 8:15; Deuteronomy 32:33; Job 20:14; Psalms 58:4; Psalms 140:3; Jeremiah 8:17
  • 11. 1 Corinthians 10:9
  • 12. Psalms 78:34; Hosea 5:15
  • 13. Numbers 14:40
  • 14. Exodus 8:8; 1 Samuel 7:8; Jeremiah 27:18; Jeremiah 37:3; Acts 8:24
  • 15. S Numbers 11:2
  • 16. John 3:14
  • 17. 2 Kings 18:4
  • 18. John 3:14-15

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