The Brazen Serpent Monument, Mount Nebo, Jordan, Middle East


The Brazen Serpent Monument, Mount Nebo, Jordan, Middle East - used by Moses. In the biblical Books of Kings, the Nehushtan is the name given to the bronze image of a serpent on a pole. The image is described in the Book of Numbers, where Yahweh instructed Moses to erect it so that the Israelites who saw it would be cured and be protected from dying from the bites of the "fiery serpents", which Yahweh had sent to punish them for speaking against him and Moses.


Size: 3990px × 5360px
Location: Mount NEbo, Jordan, Middle East
Photo credit: © Grazyna Bonati / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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