Snakes loom large in Scriptures, with the various nouns for it appearing about three dozen times. Despite its frequency the snake remains largely a matter of superstition even among Christians.
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The term 'snake/s' apperas 35x in 33 verses:
Exodus 4:3&4 The Lord said, "Throw it on the ground." Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Then the Lord said to him, "Reach out your hand and take it by the tail." So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
Exodus 7:9&10 — "When Pharaoh says to you,`Perform a miracle,' then say to Aaron,`Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,' and it will become a snake." So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.
Exodus 7:12 — Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.
Exodus 7:15 — Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
Numbers 21:6-9 — Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us." 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 prayed for the people. So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.
Deuteronomy 8:15 — He led you through the vast and dreadful desert, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.
2 Kings 18:4 — He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)
Psalm 58:4 — Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skilful the enchanter may be.
Proverbs 23:32 — Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly! In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
Proverbs 30:19 — "There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.
Ecclesiastes 10:8 — Whoever digs a pit may fall into it; whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
cclesiastes 10:11 — If a snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
Isaiah 14:29 — Do not rejoice, all you Phiitemines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.
Isaiah 30:6 — An oracle concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys' backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,
Jeremiah 8:17 — "See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the Lord.
Amos 5:19 — It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.
Micah 7:17 — They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the Lord our God and will be afraid of you.
Matthew 7:10 — "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
Matthew 10:16 — I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Matthew 23:33 — "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
Mark 16:18 — And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."
Luke 10:19 — I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
Luke 11:11 — "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
John 3:14 — Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
Acts 28:4&5 — When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live." But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
1 Corinthians 10:9 — We should not test the Lord, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.
Revelation 9:19 — The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
Adders - 3x in 3 verses:
Job 20:16 — He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him.
Isaiah 30:6 — An oracle concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys' backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,
Isaiah 59:5 — They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider's web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
Cobras - 4x in 4 verses
Deuteronomy 32:33 — Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness. Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
Psalm 58:4 — Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies. Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, . . .
Psalm 91:13 — You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
Isaiah 11:8 — The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.
Vipers - 14x in 14 verses:
Genesis 49:17 — Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backwards.
Deuteronomy 32:24 — I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
Psalm 140:3 — They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips. Selah
Proverbs 23:32 — In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
11:8 — The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.
14:29 — Do not rejoice, all you Phiitemines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.
Isaiah 59:5 — They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider's web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
Jeremiah 8:17 — "See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the Lord.
Matthew 3:7 — But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptising, he said to them: "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Matthew 12:34 — You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 23:33 — "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
Luke 3:7 — John said to the crowds coming out to be baptised by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Acts 28:3 — Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand.
Romans 3:13 — "All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no-one who does good, not even one." "Their throats are open graves; their tongues practise deceit." "The poison of vipers is on their lips."
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