He removed the high places, broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
Numbers 21:8 - Y'all Version Bible YHWH said to Moses, “You are to make a venomous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at, they will live.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent [of bronze] and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live. American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live. Common English Bible The LORD said to Moses, “Make a poisonous snake and place it on a pole. Whoever is bitten can look at it and live.” Catholic Public Domain Version And the Lord said to him: "Make a bronze serpent, and place it as a sign. Whoever, having been struck, gazes upon it, shall live." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign. Whosoever being struck shall look on it shall live. |
He removed the high places, broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
YHWH is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.
Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
“Y’all look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Humanity be lifted up,