-
The Temptation and Fall of Man
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
-
And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;
-
Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
-
And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
-
So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
-
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, A viper by the path, That bites the horse’s heels So that its rider shall fall backward.
-
And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.
-
“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Show a miracle for yourselves,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.’ ”
-
So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just as the Lord commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
-
For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
-
Go to Pharaoh in the morning, when he goes out to the water, and you shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.
-
The Bronze Serpent
Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way.
-
So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.
-
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
-
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”
-
So Moses 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.
-
who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;
-
They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust.
-
Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras.
-
He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.
-
And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire.
-
Am I a sea, or a sea serpent, That You set a guard over me?
-
By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
-
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,
-
You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.
-
You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
-
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Selah
-
At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper.
-
The way of an eagle in the air, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the midst of the sea, And the way of a man with a virgin.
-
He who digs a pit will fall into it, And whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a serpent.
-
A serpent may bite when it is not charmed; The babbler is no different.
-
“Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a viper, And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.
-
Israel Will Be Restored
In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.
-
The burden against the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery flying serpent, They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not profit;
-
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord! Awake as in the ancient days, In the generations of old. Are You not the arm that cut Rahab apart, And wounded the serpent?
-
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, The lion shall eat straw like the ox, And dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,” Says the Lord.
-
“For behold, I will send serpents among you, Vipers which cannot be charmed, And they shall bite you,” says the Lord.
-
Her noise shall go like a serpent, For they shall march with an army And come against her with axes, Like those who chop wood.
-
It will be as though a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him! Or as though he went into the house, Leaned his hand on the wall, And a serpent bit him!
-
And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel, From there I will search and take them; Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
-
They shall lick the dust like a serpent; They shall crawl from their holes like snakes of the earth. They shall be afraid of the Lord our God, And shall fear because of You.
-
Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?
-
Persecutions Are Coming
“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
-
Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?
-
they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
-
Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
-
If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?
-
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
-
nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;
-
But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
-
For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.
-
So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
-
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
-
So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
-
He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
