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Inasmuch as the serpent in the Talmud stands for such evils as talebearing and defamation of character (Genesis 3:4–5), the Midrash finds in the plague of the fiery serpents a punishment for sins of the evil tongue (Numbers 21:5). God said: "Let the serpent who was the first to offend by 'evil tongue' inflict punishment on those who were ...
"Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Make a snake image and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.’ So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. Whenever someone was bitten, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered’”. (Numbers 21:8-9)
In the Book of Numbers, while Moses was in the wilderness, he mounted a serpent of bronze on a pole that functioned as a cure against the bite of the "seraphim", the "burning ones" (Numbers 21:4–9). The phrase in Numbers 21:9, "a serpent of bronze," is a wordplay as "serpent" (nehash) and “bronze” (nehoshet) are closely related in Hebrew ...
A serpentine cross sculpture atop Mount Nebo was created by Italian artist Gian Paolo Fantoni. It is symbolic of the miracle of the bronze serpent invoked by Moses in the wilderness (Numbers 21:4–9) and the cross upon which Jesus was crucified .
The Brazen Serpent may refer to one of these paintings showing a scene from the Old Testament (Numbers 21: 6–9): The Brazen Serpent (Rubens) - 1635 and 1640 painting by Peter Paul Rubens The Brazen Serpent (Leonardo) - 1630-1640 painting by the Aragonese artist Jusepe Leonardo
February 21, 2024 at 6:46 AM ... making it the largest and heaviest snake yet known in the world. ... while declining numbers of the snake may indicate environmental distress, scientists say.
The Book of Numbers contains a narrative in which God instructed Moses to make a bronze snake as part of addressing a plague of venomous snakes that had broken out among the Israelites as a punishment for sin. The bronze snake is mentioned again in 2 Kings 18; however, rather than remaining a memorial of God's providence, it became an idol that ...
For centuries, the reign of King Jayavarman VII of Cambodia was mostly lost to history. That was before archaeologists began discovering the evidence of his monarchy in the architecture around them.