Numbers 21:6

“He led you through the great and fearsome wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.

“For behold, I am sending serpents against you, Vipers, for which there is no charm, And they will bite you,” declares Yahweh.

“If I were to cause wild beasts to pass through the land and they bereaved it of children and it became desolate so that no one would pass through it because of the beasts,

Nor let us put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents.

The Bronze Serpent