bronze snake – Bible Q

What happened to the bronze snake Moses used to protect the Israelites?

Answered by BibleQ . June 5, 2010 - 3:29 pm 1

When the people of Israel were being bitten by a plague of snakes, God told Moses to make a bronze snake as an antidote: The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake […]

Why did God save the Israelites with a bronze snake when idolatry was forbidden?

Answered by BibleQ . March 5, 2010 - 1:31 pm

This is a good question. Under normal circumstances making of such an image was forbidden: Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. However in this […]

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What happened to the bronze snake Moses used to protect the Israelites?

Why did God save the Israelites with a bronze snake when idolatry was forbidden?

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