Numbers 21:5

Numbers 21:5

3 And the Lord listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of that place was called¹ Hormah.

The Bronze Serpent

4 Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to ^ago around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very¹ discouraged on the way.

5 And the people ^aspoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul¹ loathes this worthless bread.”

6 So ^athe Lord sent ^bfiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.

7 ^aTherefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have ^bsinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; ^cpray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

8 Then the Lord said to Moses, ^a“Make a ^bfiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”

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John Wesley's Notes

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Against God - Against Christ, their chief conductor, whom they tempted, I Corinthians 10:19. Thus contemptuously did they speak of Manna, whereas it appears it yielded excellent nourishment, because in the strength of it they were able to go so many and such tedious journeys.

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