Thematic Bible: Often sent as a punishment
Thematic Bible
Serpents » Often sent as a punishment
They shall be consumed with hunger and devoured with burning heat and with bitter destruction; I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.
Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted and perished by the serpents.
Swords » Often sent as a punishment
Since the days of our fathers, we have been in great guiltiness unto this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.