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9 Bible verses about the Bronze Serpent KJV
The people complained, serpents came, and the cure was to look at a bronze one on a pole. Jesus used it to explain his own death to Nicodemus. Hezekiah later had to break it up. These verses cover all three.
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Numbers 21:5 · KJV
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.
Numbers 21:6 · KJV
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Numbers 21:7 · KJV
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
Numbers 21:8 · KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Numbers 21:9 · KJV
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
John 3:14 · KJV
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
John 3:15 · KJV
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
2 Kings 18:4 · KJV
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and 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.
1 Corinthians 10:9 · KJV
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
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