Numbers 21:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And 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. ”

• Numbers 21:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Make thee a fiery serpent - i. e. a serpent resembling in appearance the reptiles which attacked the people. The resemblance was of the essence of the symbolism (compare 1 Samuel 6:5 ). As the b...

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• Numbers 21:8 - 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 21:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  said. See note on Numbers 3:40 .

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• Numbers 21:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  8. Make thee a fiery serpent. Nothing would, at first sight, appear more unreasonable than that a brazen serpent should be made, the sight of which should extirpate the deadly poison; but th...

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• Numbers 21:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 169 THE BRASEN SERPENT Numbers 21:8-9 . And 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, toke...

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• Numbers 21:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And 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. Make thee a fiery serpe...

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• Numbers 21:8 - 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 21:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Therefore 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 f...

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• Numbers 21:8 - 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 21:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Make thee a fiery serpent. — The single Hebrew word which is here employed is saraph (a seraph), or burning one, as in Numbers 21:6 , where the word nehashim — serpents — occurs also. The...

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• Numbers 21:8 - 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 21:8 - 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 21:8 - 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 21:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  We cannot possibly err in considering this whole service, as wholly and altogether typical of the redemption by JESUS, since he himself hath so explained it. John 3:14-15 . But Reader, it is sweet a...

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• Numbers 21:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Lord said unto Moses ,.... Out of the cloud; or, it may be, Moses went into the sanctuary, and there prayed, and the Lord answered him from between the cherubim: make them a fiery serpent...

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• Numbers 21:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  A fiery serpent That is, the figure of a serpent in brass, which is of a fiery colour. This would require some time: God would not speedily take off the judgment, because he saw they were not thoro...

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• Numbers 21:8 - 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 21:8 - 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 21:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  A fiery serpent, i.e. the figure of a serpent in brass, which is of a fiery colour. This would require some time: God would not speedily take off the judgment, because he saw they were not thorough...

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• Numbers 21:8 - 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 21:8 - 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 21:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Numbers 21:8-9 I. This history would sound a strange one, and would suggest some mystery underlying it, even if it stood alone, with no afterword of Scripture claiming a special significance for i...

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• Numbers 21:8 - 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 21:8 - 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 21:8 - 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 21:8 - 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 21:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Fiery Serpents

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• Numbers 21:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Psalms 106:43-45 ; Psalms 145:8

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• Numbers 21:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A fiery serpent — That is, the figure of a serpent in brass, which is of a fiery colour. This would require some time: God would not speedily take off the judgment, because he saw they were not thr...

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