Serpents
35 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
25 sections
- (Poisonous Bite of) Baneful Effects of Wine
- (Sharp Tongue of) Malice of the Wicked
- All Kinds of, Can be Tamed
- Called Crooked
- Characterised As Subtle
- Created by God
- Cursed Above all Creatures
- Dangerous to Travellers
- Doomed to Creep on Their Belly
- Doomed to Eat Their Food Mingled with Dust
- Infest: Deserts
- Infest: Hedges
- Infest: Holes in Walls
- Man's Aversion and Hatred To
- Many Kinds of Poisonous
- Miracles Connected With: Israelites Cured by Looking at One of Brass
- Miracles Connected With: Moses' Rod Turned Into
- Miracles Connected With: Power Over, Given to the Disciples
- of Enemies Who Harass and Destroy
- of Hypocrites
- of the Devil
- of the Tribe of Dan
- Often Sent As a Punishment
- Produced from Eggs
- Unclean and Unfit for Food
(Poisonous Bite of) Baneful Effects of Wine
- Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
- Proverbs 23:32 In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
(Sharp Tongue of) Malice of the Wicked
- Psalm 140:3 They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
All Kinds of, Can be Tamed
- James 3:7 All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,
Called Crooked
- Job 26:13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
- Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent— Leviathan the coiling serpent— and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
Characterised As Subtle
- Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
- Matthew 10:16 Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Created by God
- Job 26:13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
Cursed Above all Creatures
- Genesis 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
Dangerous to Travellers
- Genesis 49:17 He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
Doomed to Creep on Their Belly
- Genesis 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
Doomed to Eat Their Food Mingled with Dust
- Genesis 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
- Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
- Micah 7:17 They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
Infest: Deserts
- Deuteronomy 8:15 He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
Infest: Hedges
- Ecclesiastes 10:8 He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.
Infest: Holes in Walls
- Amos 5:19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
Man's Aversion and Hatred To
- Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Many Kinds of Poisonous
- Deuteronomy 32:24 They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
- Psalm 58:4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
Miracles Connected With: Israelites Cured by Looking at One of Brass
- Numbers 21:8–9 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.” …
- John 3:14–15 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, …
Miracles Connected With: Moses' Rod Turned Into
- Exodus 4:3 “Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
- Exodus 7:9 “When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”
- Exodus 7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
Miracles Connected With: Power Over, Given to the Disciples
- Mark 16:18 they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”
- Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.
of Enemies Who Harass and Destroy
- Isaiah 14:29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.
- Jeremiah 8:17 “For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
of Hypocrites
- Matthew 23:33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
of the Devil
- Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
- 2 Corinthians 11:3 I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
- Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was hurled down — that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
- Revelation 20:2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
of the Tribe of Dan
- Genesis 49:17 He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
Often Sent As a Punishment
- Numbers 21:6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
- Deuteronomy 32:24 They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
- 1 Corinthians 10:9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
Produced from Eggs
- Isaiah 59:5 They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
Unclean and Unfit for Food
- Matthew 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.