Numbers 21:1

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Key Reflection

The passage in Numbers 21:4-9 recounts the story of the bronze serpent, which symbolizes redemption and Jesus Christ's sacrifice. Just as the serpent in the desert provided physical healing, the cross offers spiritual salvation to all who look to it in faith.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

King Arad the Canaanite -Rather, “the Canaanite, the king of Arad.” Arad stood on a small hill, now called Tel-Arad, 20 miles south of Hebron. In the south -SeeNumbers 13:17,Numbers 13:22. By the way of the spies -i. e. through the desert of Zin, the route which the spies sent out by Moses 38 years before had adopted (compareNumbers 13:21). He fought against Israel -This attack (compareNumbers 20:1and note), can hardly have taken place after the death of Aaron. It was most probably made just when the camp broke up from Kadesh, and the ultimate direction of the march was not as yet pronounced.

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