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- Bible Verses About the Bronze (Brazen) Serpent: 12 Scriptures on Looking and Living
The bronze serpent in Numbers 21 was a snake Moses set on a pole so the bitten could look and live. Jesus pointed to it in John 3:14-15.
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- Numbers 21:8-9 — 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.' 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. Read the article
- 2 Kings 18:4 — He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.) Read the article
- Numbers 21:9 — 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. Read the article
- Isaiah 45:22 — Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. Read the article
- John 3:16 — For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Read the article