Topic
Brazen Serpent
4 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 21:9Nave Made by Moses for the healing of the Israelites
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
- 2 Kings 18:4Nave Worshiped by Israelites
¶ He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
- John 3:14Nave A symbol of Christ
¶ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
- John 3:15Nave A symbol of Christ
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
See NEHUSHTAN.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.