Numbers 21:6

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

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  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilrness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
  • Jer 8:17 : 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
  • Isa 14:29 : 29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
  • Amos 9:3-4 : 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
  • Gen 3:14-15 : 14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

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  • Num 21:7-9
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    7Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

    8And 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.

    9And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

  • Num 11:33
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    33And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

  • Num 21:4-5
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    4And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

    5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

  • Num 11:1-2
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    1And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

    2And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

  • Exod 19:21
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    21And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

  • Lev 10:2
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    2And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

  • Num 25:9-10
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    72%

    9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

    10And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • Num 20:3-4
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    3And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

    4And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

  • Ps 78:31
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    31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

  • Exod 32:35
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    35And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

  • Num 31:16
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    16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

  • Exod 17:3-4
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    3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

    4And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

  • Num 16:21
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    21Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

  • Num 16:41
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    41But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.

  • Exod 4:3
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    3And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

  • Exod 16:2-3
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    2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

    3And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

  • Num 14:11
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    11And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

  • 1 Chr 21:14
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    14So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

  • Num 14:2
    70%

    2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

  • Ps 78:45
    70%

    45He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

  • Num 25:3
    70%

    3And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

  • Deut 7:20
    70%

    20Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hi themselves from thee, be stroyed.

  • Deut 28:21-22
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    21The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

    22The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with milw; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

  • Num 14:16
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    16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

  • 2 Sam 24:15
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    15So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

  • Deut 32:24
    70%

    24They shall be burnt with hunger, and voured with burning heat, and with bitter struction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

  • Deut 8:15
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    15Who led thee through that great and terrible wilrness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

  • Ps 78:21
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    21Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

  • Exod 32:11
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    11And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?

  • Exod 32:21
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    21And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?

  • Num 11:21
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    21And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

  • Deut 2:15
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    15For ined the hand of the LORD was against them, to stroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

  • Deut 1:27
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    27And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to liver us into the hand of the Amorites, to stroy us.

  • Exod 5:21
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    21And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.