'Snakes' in the Bible
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and who led you through the vast and dangerous desert, that parched land without water, with its poisonous snakes and scorpions. He brought water out of solid rock for you,
Emaciated from famine, feverish from plague, and destroyed by bitterness, I'll send fanged beasts against them, along with poisonous snakes that glide through the dust.
You will stomp on lions and snakes; you will trample young lions and serpents.
An oracle about the animals of the Negev: "Through a land of trouble, dryness, and distress, of lionesses and roaring lions, where there is no water, a land of vipers and darting snakes, he carries their riches on donkeys' backs, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot benefit them,
Look, I'll send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they'll bite you."
They will lick the dust like a serpent; they will crawl from their strongholds like snakes. They will fear the LORD our God. They will be terrified because of you.
You snakes, you children of serpents! How can you escape being condemned to hell?
and they'll pick up snakes with their hands.Even if they drink any deadly poison, it won't hurt them, and they'll place their hands on the sick, and they'll recover."
Look! I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to destroy all the enemy's power, and nothing will ever hurt you.
Their throats are open graves. With their tongues they deceive. The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.
Let's stop putting the Lord to the test, as some of them were doing, and were destroyed by snakes.
For the power of these horses is in their mouths and their tails. Their tails have heads like snakes, which they use to inflict pain.