Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Numbers 21:6
And the LORD sent (d) fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
(d) For they that were bitten by them were so inflamed by the poison of them, that they died.
And the LORD sent (d) fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
(d) For they that were bitten by them were so inflamed by the poison of them, that they died.
Verse Numbers 21:6. _FIERY SERPENTS_] הנחשים השרפים _hannechashim_ _hasseraphim_. I have observed before, on Genesis 3:1, that it is difficult to assign a name to the creature termed in Hebrew _nacha...
FIERY SERPENTS - The epithet Deuteronomy 8:15; Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 30:6 denotes the inflammatory effect of their bite. The peninsula of Sinai, and not least, the Arabah, abounds in mottled snakes of
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...
FIERY SERPENTS. burning. Hebrew. _nacheshim saraphim._ Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, because the effect of the bite was. burning sensation. Hebrew. _saraph_ (see App-43.) The _Seraph...
_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...
_fiery serpents_ The Heb. words are both substantives, and both have the article: -the serpents, the fiery creatures." If -fiery" is the correct rendering, it probably refers to their venomous bite wh...
_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...
THE LORD SENT FIERY SERPENTS AMONG THE PEOPLE— Bochart takes these serpents to have been of that kind which is called _Hydrus,_ or Chersydrus, whose bite dries up the skin, and occasions a violent hea...
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...
_AND THE LORD SENT FIERY SERPENTS AMONG THE PEOPLE, AND THEY BIT THE PEOPLE; AND MUCH PEOPLE OF ISRAEL DIED._ The Lord sent fiery serpents, х_ HANªCHAASHIYM_ (H5175) _ HASªRAAPIYM_ (H8314); Septuagin...
THE BRAZEN SERPENT. CONQUEST OF BASHAN 1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are eventually destroyed....
FIERY SERPENTS] i.e. serpents whose sting caused violent inflammation. Venomous sandsnakes are still found in this locality....
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 THE LORD SENT FIERY SERPENTS... — Hebrew, _the serpents, the seraphim_ (_i.e.,_ the burning ones). (See Deuteronomy 8:15; Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 30:6.) The word appears to denote a particular kind o...
וַ יְשַׁלַּ֨ח יְהוָ֜ה בָּ † עָ֗ם אֵ֚ת...
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...
Fiery serpents. They are so called, because they that were bitten by them were burnt with a violent heat. (Challoner) --- Hence they are called seraphim, by which name an order of angels are known. Th...
There is a striking connection between the sin and the punishment. The people murmured for want of water; and here the LORD sent them a thirst which no water could satisfy. It should be observed that...
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...
6._And the Lord sent fiery serpents. _Their ingratitude was justly and profitably chastised by this punishment; for they were practically taught that it was only through God’s paternal care that they...
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 THE LORD SENT FIERY SERPENTS AMONG THE PEOPLE,.... Of which there were great numbers in the deserts of Arabia, and about the Red sea; but hitherto the Israelites were protected from them by the cl...
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Ver. 6. _Fiery serpents._] Heb., Seraphim; from their burning heat, whereby these ungratefu...
_Fiery serpents_ Hebrew, נחשׁים, _nechashim_, the plural of the word translated _serpent, Genesis 3:1_, where Moses speaks of the temptation and fall of our first parents, and which, when intended of...
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 the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, whose bite filled the wound with a burning venom, very deadly, AND THEY BIT THE PEOPLE, who were unable to rid themselves of the plague; AND MUCH PEO...
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...
Such there were many in this wilderness, DEUTERONOMY 8:15, which having been hitherto restrained by God, are now let loose and sent among them. They are called _fiery_ from their effects, because thei...
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...
Numbers 21:6 LORD H3068 sent H7971 (H8762) fiery H8314 serpents H5175 people H5971 bit H5391 (H8762) people...
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...
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. ⇐...
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 Corinthians 10:9; Amos 9:3; Amos 9:4; Deuteronomy 8:15; Genesis 3:14;
Fiery serpents — There were many such in this wilderness, which having been hitherto restrained by God, are now let loose and sent among them. They are called fiery from their effects, because their p...