Thematic Bible: Often sent as a punishment
Thematic Bible
Serpents » Often sent as a punishment
They shall be burnt 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 much people of Israel died.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
Swords » Often sent as a punishment
Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.