Numbers 21:9

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So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole, and if a serpent bit someone, they looked at the bronze serpent and lived.

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  • John 3:14-15 : 14 Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and smashed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been burning incense to it, calling it Nehushtan.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on Me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, 'Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!'
  • John 6:40 : 40 For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.
  • John 12:32 : 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to Myself."
  • Rom 1:17 : 17 For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: 'The righteous will live by faith.'
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Now the law was brought in so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more. 21 So that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law could not do, weakened as it was by the flesh, God did. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, He condemned sin in the flesh.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising its shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • 1 John 3:8 : 8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this reason: to destroy the works of the devil.
  • Isa 45:22 : 22 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 21:6-8
    3 verses
    95%

    6Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.

    7The people came to Moses and said, 'We have sinned, for we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD to take the serpents away from us.' So Moses prayed for the people.

    8The LORD said to Moses, 'Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten and looks at it will live.'

  • John 3:14
    79%

    14Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

  • Exod 4:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2The LORD said to him, 'What is that in your hand?' Moses replied, 'A staff.'

    3Then He said, 'Throw it to the ground.' So Moses threw it to the ground, and it became a serpent, and he ran away from it.

    4Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand and grasp its tail.' So Moses stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff again in his hand.

  • Exod 7:8-10
    3 verses
    70%

    8The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    9"When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a miracle,' you shall say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.'"

    10So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
    69%

    9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and they were killed by snakes.

  • Exod 9:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on both people and animals.

    11The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians.

  • Mark 16:18
    68%

    18They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink anything deadly, it will not harm them. They will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.

  • Num 21:10
    67%

    10The Israelites journeyed on and camped at Oboth.

  • Acts 7:31
    67%

    31Moses was amazed at what he saw. As he approached to look more closely, he heard the voice of the Lord say,

  • Jer 8:17
    67%

    17See, I am sending venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you, declares the LORD.

  • Exod 7:12
    67%

    12Each one threw down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4
    67%

    4He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and smashed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been burning incense to it, calling it Nehushtan.

  • Num 25:10
    67%

    10The LORD said to Moses,

  • Num 20:9
    67%

    9So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence, just as he was commanded.

  • Amos 5:19
    67%

    19It will be as if a man flees from a lion, only to be met by a bear; or as if he enters his house, rests his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him.

  • Num 17:9-11
    3 verses
    67%

    9The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    10'Move away from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.' And they fell facedown.

    11Moses said to Aaron, 'Take your censer and put incense on it, along with fire from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun.'

  • Exod 15:25-26
    2 verses
    66%

    25Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them.

    26He said, 'If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.'

  • Exod 7:15
    66%

    15"Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes down to the water. Wait to meet him by the riverbank, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.

  • Acts 28:3
    66%

    3When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and placed them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, latched onto his hand.

  • Exod 17:6
    66%

    6The LORD continued, "I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 19:21
    66%

    21The LORD said to Moses, 'Go down and warn the people not to force their way through to see the LORD, or many of them will perish.'

  • Amos 9:3
    65%

    3'If they hide themselves on the top of Mount Carmel, from there I will search them out and seize them. If they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.'

  • Prov 23:32
    65%

    32In the end, it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.

  • Exod 7:20
    65%

    20Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded. Aaron raised his staff and struck the water of the Nile in the sight of Pharaoh and his officials, and all the water in the river was turned into blood.

  • Num 20:11
    65%

    11Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water came out abundantly, and the community and their livestock drank.

  • Exod 30:17
    65%

    17The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 19:1
    65%

    1The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:

  • Lev 13:1
    65%

    1The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

  • Deut 8:15
    65%

    15He led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, filled with venomous snakes, scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water. He brought water for you out of a rock of flint.

  • Neh 9:18
    65%

    18Even when they made a molten calf for themselves and said, 'This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,' and they committed terrible blasphemies,

  • Exod 19:17
    65%

    17Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

  • Exod 17:15
    65%

    15Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.

  • Lev 24:13
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    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Num 31:16
    64%

    16Behold, these women caused the people of Israel to act unfaithfully against the LORD through the advice of Balaam in the matter of Peor, which led to the plague among the congregation of the LORD.

  • Deut 9:16
    64%

    16I saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made a molten calf for yourselves. You had quickly turned aside from the way the LORD had commanded you.