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CHAPTER 21
Murmuring and Conquest
_ 1. Opposition of King Arad (Numbers 21:1)_
2. Murmuring and the fiery serpents (Numbers 21:4)
3. The serpent of brass (Numbers 21:8)
4. Journeying and singing
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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 they...
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_The bronze serpent_. God did not at once take away the plague. Each
individual received healing only when he performed an act of faith, by
looking at the serpent. An early Jewish writer says that it...
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_NUMBERS 21:4_. 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, but speak...
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THE LORD SENT FIERY SERPENTS AMONG THE PEOPLE— Bochart takes these
serpents to have been of that kind which is called _Hydrus,_ or
Chersydrus, whose bite dries up the skin, and occasions a violent
hea...
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F. INCIDENT OF THE BRASS SERPENT vv. 4-9
TEXT
Numbers 21:4. And 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 be...
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_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 FOR T...
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THE BRAZEN SERPENT. CONQUEST OF BASHAN
1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are
eventually destroyed....
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 21
THE *ISRAELITES DEFEAT THE *CANAANITES – NUMBERS 21:1-3
V1 The king of Arad lived in the southern part of t
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THE LAST MARCH AND THE FIRST CAMPAIGN
Numbers 21:1
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
the return...
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THE BRAZEN SERPENT; JOURNEYING TO PISGAH
Numbers 21:1
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 the lon...
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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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In Moses praying for the people, observe a lively type of JESUS in his
glorious mediatorial character. Job is another lively type of the
same. Job 42:8....
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The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has
evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise.
It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
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The question is not here to conduct the people with patience through
the wilderness, where the flesh manifested itself; but there are
enemies and difficulties to be met; for there are difficulties
dis...
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THEREFORE THE PEOPLE CAME TO MOSES, AND SAID, WE HAVE SINNED,....
Being bitten with serpents, and some having died, the rest were
frightened, and came and made an humble acknowledgment of their sins
t...
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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 for th...
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1 Israel with some losse destroy the Canaanites at Hormah.
4 The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents.
7 They repenting are healed by a brasen serpent.
10 Sundry iourneyes of the Israel...
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Therefore the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we
have spoken against the Lord and against thee; the punishment which
the Lord visited upon them worked a knowledge of their sins in t...
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THE FIERY SERPENTS...
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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 the i...
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4-9 The children of Israel were wearied by a long march round the
land of Edom. They speak discontentedly of what God had done for them,
and distrustfully of what he would do. What will they be pleas...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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This chapter brings prominently before us the familiar and beautiful
ordinance of the brazen Serpent that great evangelical type. "And they
journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compa...
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Numbers 21:7 people H5971 came H935 (H8799) Moses H4872 said H559
(H8799) sinned H2398 (H8804) spoken...
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5). THE BRAZEN SERPENT (NUMBERS 21:4).
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 hoping to...
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Numbers 21:1. 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 Israe...
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CONTENTS: Victories of Israel; the serpent of brass.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Arad, Sihon, Og.
CONCLUSION: Those who cry without cause will be given just cause to
cry and they will be compelle...
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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 it...
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_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 peopl...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:4__ The people once again grumble about
their food. They are punished by poisonous snake bites.
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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 called...
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EXPOSITION
THE FIERY SERPENTS (Numbers 21:4).
NUMBERS 21:4
THEY JOURNEYED FROM MOUNT HOR. It appears from comparison of Numb
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Let's turn in our Bibles to Numbers chapter twenty-one.
Now the children of Israel have been in the wilderness for about
thirty-nine years and they are now beginning to make their move
towards the Pro...
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1 Kings 13:6; 1 Samuel 12:19; 1 Samuel 12:20; 1 Samuel 15:24;...