Numbers 21:8

New International Version

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.”

Cross References

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.)

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.

Isaiah 30:6

A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,

Isaiah 45:22

“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

John 3:14

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