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Understanding the Bible Commentary: Leviticus, Numbers takes on two often neglected books of Scripture with the conviction that modern believers can gain much benefit from them. Amidst the laws and lists, these two books display the holiness and awesomeness of God, the importance of purity, the nature of worship, the value of obedience, and the consequences of disobedience in the early life of...

stories, the camp’s repentance has been short-lived. Here God does not remove the problem, but provides a means of healing. In the time of King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, he removed from the temple what was called “Nehushtan,” Moses’ bronze serpent (2 Kgs. 18:1–8). The people had come to treat it as an idol, and so it needed to be removed. This story provides a kind of aetiology for Nehushtan and shows that the snake was not to be worshipped, but was a means of healing in this circumstance. The NT alludes
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