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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 21:8

Upon a pole] RV 'upon a standard.' This brazen serpent was long preserved by the Israelites, and ultimately became an object of superstitious veneration, in consequence of which Hezekiah ordered it to be destroyed (2 Kings 18:4).

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See also Numbers 21:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Numbers 21:8. _MAKE THEE A FIERY SERPENT_] Literally, make thee a seraph. _AND PUT IT UPON A POLE_] על נס _al nes_, upon a _standard_ or _ensign_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 brass se...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • 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 they...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SAID. See note on Numbers 3:40....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a fiery serpent_ Here it is a single substantive, the second of the two in Numbers 21:6. _set it upon a_ POLE] The rendering of the A.V. may here be retained....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 169 THE BRASEN SERPENT Numbers 21:8. _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, token he loo...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MAKE THEE A FIERY SERPENT, AND SET IT UPON A POLE— The author of the Book of Wisdom sets this matter in its proper light, when he calls this fiery serpent _a sign of salvation to put them in remembran...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • 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 FOR T...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    21:8 upon (c-31) Lit. 'seeth.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • 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 meani...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֗ה עֲשֵׂ֤ה לְךָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Brazen. Hebrew, "fiery." But, in the following verse, it is said to have been "of brass." We might translate, "make a seraph, and fix it upon a standard," (Calmet) in which form it would resemble one...

  • 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. But Reader, it is sweet as well...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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 this appare...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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; not...

  • 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 thorou...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord said unto Moses, in a command which was adapted to the situation and was of great typical significance, MAKE THEE A FIERY SERPENT, cast a figure which is an exact reproduction of one, AND...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FIERY SERPENTS...

  • Leslie 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 the i...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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 thoroughly...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 21:8 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Moses H4872 Make H6213 (H8798) fiery H8314 set H7760 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Numbers 21:8 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 it. But...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 it...

  • 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 peopl...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:4__ The people once again grumble about their food. They are punished by poisonous snake bites. ⇐...

  • The 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 called...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE FIERY SERPENTS (Numbers 21:4). NUMBERS 21:4 THEY JOURNEYED FROM MOUNT HOR. It appears from comparison of Numb

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Psalms 106:43; Psalms 145:8...

  • 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 throug...

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