Numbers 21:8

New English Translation

The Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:4

He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

Isaiah 14:29

Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root, and its fruit will be a darting adder.

Isaiah 30:6

This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

Isaiah 45:22

Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.

John 3:14

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,