Numbers 21:8

God's Word

The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake, and put it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:4

He got rid of the illegal places of worship, crushed the sacred stones, and cut down the poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah. He even crushed the bronze snake that Moses had made because up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. They called it Nehushtan.

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is merciful, compassionate, patient, and always ready to forgive.

Isaiah 14:29

All you Philistines, don’t rejoice that the rod of the one who struck you is broken, because a viper will come from that snake’s root, and his descendant will be a flying, fiery serpent.

Isaiah 30:6

This is the divine revelation about the animals in the Negev. “My people travel through lands where they experience distress and hardship. Lions and lionesses live there. Vipers and poisonous snakes live there. They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a nation that can’t help them.

Isaiah 45:22

Turn to me and be saved, all who live at the ends of the earth, because I am God, and there is no other.

John 3:14

“As Moses lifted up the snake ⌞on a pole⌟ in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up.