Leviticus 26:18-20, "18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass (H5154): 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits."
Brass, H5154, Feminine of H5153; copper: - brass, steel. Compare H5176. H5153, Apparently passive participle of H5172 (perhaps in the sense of ringing, that is, bell metal; or from the red color of the throat of a serpent (H5175, as denominative) when hissing); coppery, that is, (figuratively) hard: - of brass. H5176, The same as H5175; Nachash, the name of two persons apparently non Israelites: - Nahash.
The above is rather convoluted but finally got to the Nahash, "That thing of brass."
Here a judgment of the land not yielding increase or fruit harking back to Genesis Chapter 3.
Here a judgment of the land not yielding increase or fruit harking back to Genesis Chapter 3.
Numbers 21:8-10, "8 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass (5178), and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. 10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth."
Brass, H5178, For H5154; copper; hence, something made of that metal, that is, coin, a fetter; figuratively base (as compared with gold or silver): - brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel. H5154, Leviticus 26:19.
The people murmured, Numbers 21:5, "And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread." God sent fiery serpents among them and many died or were dying. Moses interceded with God and God had Moses construct a bronze serpent of brass lifted on a pole. Whoever looked at the bronze serpent would be healed of the snakebite.
A foretelling that by the suffering of Jesus on the cross we are justified if we place our faith in Jesus. As an aside, the serpent later became something of a idol to the nation and was finally destroyed in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Kings 25:6-8, "6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass (H5178), and carried him to Babylon. 8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:"
Two prophecies were seemingly in conflict, King Zedekiah would never see Babylon and King Zedekiah would die in Babylon. Actually, the blind King Zedekiah did both.
Isaiah 45:1-3, "45 Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass (H5154), and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel."
Daniel 5:3-5, "3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass (H5174), of iron, of wood, and of stone. 5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote."
Cyrus was to take the city of Babylon without a fight. King Belshazzar, the grandson of king Nebuchadnezzar, ordered drinks to be served in vessels taken from the Temple. Then appeared the "Handwriting on the Wall." God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
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