Numbers 21:6

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So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

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  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and
  • Jer 8:17 : 17 The LORD says,“Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”
  • Isa 14:29 : 29 Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root, and its fruit will be a darting adder.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.
  • Amos 9:3-4 : 3 Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them. 4 Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will not let them out of my sight; they will experience disaster, not prosperity.”
  • Gen 3:14-15 : 14 The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life. 15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”

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  • Num 21:7-9
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    7Then 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 would take away the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

    8The LORD said to Moses,“Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

    9So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.

  • Num 11:33
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    33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17The LORD says,“Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”

  • Num 21:4-5
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    4Fiery Serpents Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

  • Num 11:1-2
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    1The Israelites Complain When the people complained, it displeased the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

    2When the people cried to Moses, he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died out.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

  • Exod 19:21
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    21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

  • Lev 10:2
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    2So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.

  • Num 25:9-10
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    9Those that died in the plague were 24,000.

    10The Aftermath The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 20:3-4
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    3The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

  • Ps 78:31
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    31when the anger of God flared up against them. He killed some of the strongest of them; he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.

  • Exod 32:35
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    35And the LORD sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf– the one Aaron made.

  • Num 31:16
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    16Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!

  • Exod 17:3-4
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    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

    4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”

  • Num 16:21
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    21“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”

  • Num 16:41
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    41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

  • Exod 4:3
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    3The LORD said,“Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.

  • Exod 16:2-3
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    2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

    3The Israelites 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, 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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    11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • 1 Chr 21:14
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    14So the LORD sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

  • Num 14:2
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    2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

  • Ps 78:45
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    45He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

  • Num 25:3
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    3When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel.

  • Deut 7:20
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    20Furthermore, the LORD your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

  • Deut 28:21-22
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    21The LORD will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

    22He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

  • Num 14:16
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    16‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

  • 2 Sam 24:15
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    15So the LORD sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba.

  • Deut 32:24
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    24They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • Deut 8:15
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    15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

  • Ps 78:21
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    21When the LORD heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

  • Exod 32:11
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    11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out 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 on them so great a sin?”

  • Num 11:21
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    21Moses said,“The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say,‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’

  • Deut 2:15
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    15Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

  • Deut 1:27
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    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Exod 5:21
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    21and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”