Darby's translation notes (1890)
Numbers 21:9
21:9 brass, (d-7) brass, (d-32) Or 'copper.' beheld (e-28) 'looked intently [at].' so ch. 23.21.
21:9 brass, (d-7) brass, (d-32) Or 'copper.' beheld (e-28) 'looked intently [at].' so ch. 23.21.
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 signi...
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
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...
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. Com...
_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...
_Moses made a serpent of_ BRONZE] The removing of a pest by means of a bronze image of it finds parallels in ancient Europe. See Gray, _Numb_. p. 276. Numbers 21:10. P _Stages in the journey to the...
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...
_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...
MOSES MADE A SERPENT OF BRASS— That it might resemble a serpent of a flaming colour; and, being splendid, might be seen far and near. Naturalists observe, that the sight of the image of the creature b...
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...
_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...
THE BRAZEN SERPENT. CONQUEST OF BASHAN 1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are eventually destroyed....
WHEN HE BEHELD THE SERPENT OF BRASS, HE LIVED] rather, 'when he looked to it,' i.e. not casually but of purpose and with faith. The lifeless image of the serpent that had caused the pain and death of...
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
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:...
וַ יַּ֤עַשׂ מֹשֶׁה֙ נְחַ֣שׁ נְחֹ֔שֶׁת וַ יְשׂ
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
THE FIERY SERPENTS...
And Moses made a serpent of brass, as much in form and appearance like the fiery serpents as possible, AND PUT IT UPON A POLE. AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT, IF A SERPENT HAD BITTEN ANY MAN, WHEN HE BEHELD...
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...
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...
He was delivered from death, and cured of his disease....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:4__ The people once again grumble about their food. They are punished by poisonous snake bites. ⇐...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 21:9 BRONZE SERPENT. The Hebrew term translated “bronze” can also mean “copper” (see esv footnote). The redness of copper suggests atonement (see...
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...
EXPOSITION THE FIERY SERPENTS (Numbers 21:4). NUMBERS 21:4 THEY JOURNEYED FROM MOUNT HOR. It appears from comparison of Numb
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...
1 John 3:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 2 Kings 18:4; Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 4
He lived — He was delivered from death, and cured of his disease....
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 bro...