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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.”  
9 So aMoses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.  

From Mount Hor to Moab

10 Now the children of Israel moved on and acamped in Oboth.  
11 And they journeyed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, in the wilderness which is east of Moab, toward the sunrise.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Numbers 21:5

our soul loatheth this light bread—that is, bread without substance or nutritious quality. The refutation of this calumny appears in the fact, that on the strength of this food they performed for forty years so many and toilsome journeys. But they had been indulging a hope of the better and more varied fare enjoyed by a settled people; and disappointment, always the more bitter as the hope of enjoyment seems near, drove them to speak against God and against Moses (I Corinthians 10:9).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Numbers 21:5:

Deuteronomy 2:1
2 Kings 18:4
1 Corinthians 10:9

 

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