Numbers 21:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Numbers 21:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Fiery serpents - The epithet Deuteronomy 8:15 ; Isaiah 14:29 ; Isaiah 30:6 denotes the inflammatory effect of their bite. The peninsula of Sinai, and not least, the Arabah, abounds in mottled...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the LORD sent (d) fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. (d) For they that were bitten by them were so inflamed by the poison of them, that the...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Fiery Serpents. This incident is alluded to by Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:9 . The serpents are described as fiery by reason of the inflammation caused by their bite. The means whereby the injury...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  fiery serpents . burning. Hebrew. nacheshim saraphim. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6, because the effect of the bite was. burning sensation. Hebrew. saraph (see App-43.) The Ser...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  6. And the Lord sent fiery serpents. Their ingratitude was justly and profitably chastised by this punishment; for they were practically taught that it was only through God’s paternal care t...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Fiery serpents - הנחשים השרפים hannechashim hasseraphim. I have observed before, on Genesi...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Numbers 21:4-9 . New provocations bring down new plagues upon them. We have here, 1. Their murmuring. Discouraged by the length and difficulties of the road, they not only quarrel with Moses, bu...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. The Lord sent fiery serpents, х hanªchaashiym ( H5175 ) hasªraapiym ( H831...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Brazen Serpent. Conquest of Bashan 1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are eventually destroyed.

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• Numbers 21:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And the Lord sent fiery serpents... — Hebrew, the serpents, the seraphim ( i.e., the burning ones). (See Deuteronomy 8:15 ; Isaiah 14:29 ; Isaiah 30:6 .) The word appears to denote a particul...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE LAST MARCH AND THE FIRST CAMPAIGN Numbers 21:1-35 IT has been suggested in a previous chapter that the repulse of the Israelites by the King of Arad took place on the occasion when, after t...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Brazen Serpent; Journeying to Pisgah Numbers 21:1-20 It often falls to our lot to compass the land of Edom! It is bad enough to have to fight the desert tribes, but it is harder to traverse...

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• Numbers 21:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The movement forward of the people now brought them into the path of conflict. The way was rough and difficult and the people were discouraged. Again they felt a lusting after Egypt and spoke against...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  There is a striking connection between the sin and the punishment. The people murmured for want of water; and here the LORD sent them a thirst which no water could satisfy. It should be observed that...

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• Numbers 21:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people ,.... Of which there were great numbers in the deserts of Arabia, and about the Red sea; but hitherto the Israelites were protected from them by the...

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• Numbers 21:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Ver. 6. Fiery serpents. ] Heb., Seraphim; from their burning heat, whereby these ungrate...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Fiery serpents Hebrew, נחשׁים, nechashim , the plural of the word translated serpent, Genesis 3:1 , where Moses speaks of the temptation and fall of our first parents, and which, when intended...

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• Numbers 21:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ATTACK AND DEFEAT OF CANAANITES (vs.1-3) The king of Arad, a Canaanite, heard that Israel was in the same vicinity from which they had sent the spies into the south of Canaan. He therefore took t...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Brazen Serpent. B. C. 1452.       4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Such there were many in this wilderness, Deuteronomy 8:15 , which having been hitherto restrained by God, are now let loose and sent among them. They are called fiery from their effects, because...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  5). The Brazen Serpent ( Numbers 21:4-10 ). Having defeated the king of Arad Israel continued its journey from Mount Hor by ‘the way to the Reed Sea', skirting the land of Edom. As they had been...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 21:1 . King Arad the Canaanite . Rather, “the Canaanite King of Arad.” Arad was a royal city of the Canaanites ( Joshua 12:14 ), and was situated on a hill c...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Numbers 21:1-4 . And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. And...

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• Numbers 21:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Numbers 21:1 . King Arad; that is, Arad king of Arad. The way of the spies, is understood to be the route of the twelve spies sent from Kadesh-Barnea. But the LXX not understanding it so, render...

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• Numbers 21:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Much discouraged because of the way. On the discouragements of pious men I. I shall point out the discouragements in the way; and, in doing this, I shall keep my eye on the pilgrimage of the pe...

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• Numbers 21:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE FIERY SERPENTS ( Numbers 21:4 ). Numbers 21:4 They journeyed from Mount Hor. It appears from comparison of Numbers 33:38 and Numbers 20:29 that their departure w...

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• Numbers 21:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Fiery Serpents

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• Numbers 21:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:9 ; Amos 9:3 ; Amos 9:4 ; Deuteronomy 8:15 ; Genesis 3:14 ; Genesis 3:15 ; Isaiah 14:29 ; Isaiah 30:6 ; Jeremiah 8:17

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• Numbers 21:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Fiery serpents — There were many such in this wilderness, which having been hitherto restrained by God, are now let loose and sent among them. They are called fiery from their effects, because thei...

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