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Verse Numbers 21:9. _AND MOSES MADE A SERPENT OF BRASS_] נחש
נחשת _nechash_ _nechosheth_. Hence we find that the word for
_brass_ or _copper_ comes from the same root with _nachash_, which
here signif...
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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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SERPENT. Hebrew. _nachash,_. _shining_ thing of brass, as in
Deuteronomy 8:15; 2 Kings 18:4, &c.: so that _nachash_ is synonymous
with _saraph,_ and both words are thus used of serpents.
HE LIVED. Co...
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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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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 lo...
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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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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 b...
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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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21:9 brass, (d-7) brass, (d-32) Or 'copper.' beheld (e-28) 'looked
intently [at].' so ch. 23.21....
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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 the co...
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AND MOSES MADE A SERPENT OF BRASS. — The old serpent was the cause
of death, temporal and spiritual. Christ Jesus, “in the likeness of
sinful flesh” (Romans 8:3), was made sin for us (2 Corinthians
5:...
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וַ יַּ֤עַשׂ מֹשֶׁה֙ נְחַ֣שׁ נְחֹ֔שֶׁת
וַ יְשִׂמֵ֖הוּ עַל ־הַ נֵּ֑ס וְ הָיָ֗ה
אִם ־נָשַׁ֤ךְ...
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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 retur...
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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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_A brazen serpent. This was a figure of Christ crucified, and of the
efficacy of a lively faith in him, against the bites of the hellish
serpent, John iii. 14. (Challoner) (St. Ambrose; Apol. i. 3.) A...
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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...
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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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_BANE AND ANTIDOTE_
‘If a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of
brass, he lived.’
Numbers 21:9
Faint and weary, and dispirited, the old murmuring breaks out against
God and agai...
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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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AND MOSES MADE A SERPENT OF BRASS,.... Which was the most proper metal
to make it of, that it might resemble the fiery serpents, whether of a
golden or scarlet colour: and Diodorus Siculus d speaks of...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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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He was delivered from death, and cured of his disease....
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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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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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SERPENT
(_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 3:14). _
The serpent is a symbol of sin judged; brass speaks of the divine
judgment, as in the brazen altar
(_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 27:1)", _
note (2) and se...
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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...
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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 Isra...
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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 Numbers
33:38 and Numbers 20:29 that their departure was not earlier than the...
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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 John 3:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 2 Kings 18:4; Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah
45:22; John 1:29; John 12:32; John 3:14; John 3:15; John 6:40;...
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He lived — He was delivered from death, and cured of his disease....
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Wasn’t making this bronze serpent a form of idolatry?
PROBLEM: God commanded Moses not to make “any carved image”
(Exodus 20:4), lest it be used as an idol. Yet here Moses was
commanded to “make a br...