Numbers 21:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes that bit and killed many of them.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:9

And don't try to test Christ, as some of them did and were later bitten by poisonous snakes.

Jeremiah 8:17

“Watch out!” the Lord says. “I'm sending poisonous snakes to attack you, and no one can stop them.”

Deuteronomy 8:15

Remember how he led you in that huge and frightening desert where poisonous snakes and scorpions live. There was no water, but the Lord split open a rock, and water poured out so you could drink.

Isaiah 30:6

This is a message about the animals of the Southern Desert: “You people carry treasures on donkeys and camels. You travel to a feeble nation through a troublesome desert filled with lions and flying fiery dragons.

Isaiah 14:29

Philistines, don't be happy just because the rod that punished you is broken. That rod will become a poisonous snake, and then a flying fiery dragon.

Ezekiel 14:15

Or suppose I punish a nation by sending wild animals to eat people and scare away every passerby, so that the land becomes a barren desert.