Numbers 21:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you water out of the rock of flint;
  • Jer 8:17 : 17 For behold, I will send serpents, vipers, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
  • Isa 14:29 : 29 Rejoice not, whole Philistia, because the rod of him that struck you is broken: for out of the serpent's root will come forth a viper, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: through a land of trouble and anguish, from which come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
  • Amos 9:3-4 : 3 And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them. 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
  • Gen 3:14-15 : 14 And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life: 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

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  • Num 21:7-9
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    84%

    7Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray to the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

    8And the LORD said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looks 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
    76%

    33And while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Jer 8:17
    75%

    17For behold, I will send serpents, vipers, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.

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

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes 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 burned among them, and consumed those who were in the outermost parts of the camp.

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

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes.

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

  • Lev 10:2
    73%

    2Then fire went out from the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

  • Num 25:9-10
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    72%

    9And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

    10And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 20:3-4
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    72%

    3And the people argued with Moses and spoke, saying, "Would God that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

    4And why have you brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness so that we and our livestock should die here?

  • Ps 78:31
    72%

    31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen men of Israel.

  • Exod 32:35
    72%

    35The LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.

  • Num 31:16
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    16Look, these women 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 were thirsty there for water; and the people grumbled against Moses, and said, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

    4And Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.

  • Num 16:21
    71%

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

  • Num 16:41
    71%

    41But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You 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 it.

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

    3And the children of Israel said to them, If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, and when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

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

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

  • Num 14:2
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    2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

  • Ps 78:45
    70%

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

  • Num 25:3
    70%

    3And Israel joined himself to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

  • Deut 7:20
    70%

    20Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves from you, are destroyed.

  • Deut 28:21-22
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    70%

    21The LORD shall make the pestilence cling unto you, until He has consumed you from off the land, where you go to possess it.

    22The LORD shall strike you with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

  • Num 14:16
    70%

    16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

  • 2 Sam 24:15
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    15So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beersheba.

  • Deut 32:24
    70%

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

  • Deut 9:22
    70%

    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.

  • Deut 8:15
    70%

    15Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you water out of the rock of flint;

  • Ps 78:21
    70%

    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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    11Moses entreated the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

  • Exod 32:21
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    21Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you, that you have brought such a great 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 You have said, I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.

  • Deut 2:15
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    15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they were consumed.

  • Deut 1:27
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    27And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

  • Exod 5:21
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    21And they said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge; because you have made our odor to be loathed in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.