Ezekiel is exhultant that the Jews will soon be returning home to Judah. In this passage, he says rhetorically that the mountains of Israel should be told that they will once again be bearing fruit for the people of Israel.
The Hebrews are defeated at least twice in their conquest of Canaan as told in the Old Testament. In chapter 15 of the Book of Joshua we are told that they were unable to defeat the Canaanites living upon the plains because they possessed iron chariots, nor could they to drive the Jebusites out of the city of Jerusalem.
i am Muslim but the bible and the quran are almost similar so ok Adam and eve where living in heaven then god told them not to eat from a fruit tree (not really specified which type of fruit) anyways so god told them not to eat from it but then Satan (a.k.a the devil) just convinced them to eat from it so they ate from it and god said that they did not abide by what he said so he send them to earthreal virson:God made the first two people on earth (Adam and Eve) and said to them to enjoy life on earth but not to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of good and evil. Then the serpent who was really Satan (the devil) convinced Eve into eating the fruit. Eve gave some to Adam. Then, they tried to hide from God. God said to them you have disobeyed me. Adam then said that Eve had given him the fruit. Eve said the serpent made her do it. God punished them.
AnswerProbably the murderous King Herod who said to the wise men in Matthew 2:8 "....and when ye have found him (that is, Jesus) bring me word again, that I may come and worship him." Herod of course had no worshipful intention but rather wanted to find out where Jesus was so he could kill him.
Covetousness lead to the first false god in the bible were in Genesis 3:4-6 Eve was told that she would be like God if she disobeyed and ate from the tree. And so she did. She exalted herself to the point of becoming equal to God in her own eyes, thus making herself a god. Self-worship.
he is the god of war of the aztecs. he is the one who told them to look for an eagle eating a serpent on top of a cactus and that is where they should build their city
The serpent Satan, told Eve that if she ate the fruit she would be wise as god.
The freedom to worship as they chose rather than how they were told they should worship.
The Aztec war god told the Aztecs to look for an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake in its beak. This symbol guided them to find their capital city, Tenochtitlan, where they built their great empire.
They told stories of Hercules.
Moses
They were NOT told to bow before it. They only had to look at it, and they would be healed and live. The brazen serpent was a representation of sin, and therefore was a representation of Jesus Christ, whom the Bible says became sin for us. There are many things in the Old Testament that point to Christ. Numbers 21:8-9 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. And Moses made a serpent of brass, 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.
they told stories where they used to live
Satan, in the form of a serpent, assured Eve that "Ye shall not surely die". He also told her they would be 'as gods'.
The story of the serpent began in the Dreamtime. The Aborigines told of a great snake that emerged from beneath the earth, winding from side to side, making the great rivers flow from its path. From its body sprang the tribes, the animals and the birds of Australia. Sometimes the serpent was depicted as a man. Sometimes as a woman. Sometimes as a man with breasts. It was spoken upon in a hushed voice for it inflicted vengeance upon those who angered it. Stories told of it swallowing people who had not observed taboos. It was said to be responsible for causing natural disasters such as floods and droughts. One story even told of the serpent swallowing an orphan boy, and all his tribe, because the boy wouldn't stop crying. As the serpent returned to the earth, the boy and his tribe also became part of the land.
God told Moses (Numbers ch.21) to make the image of a serpent. This was to remind those who complained about the journey or about the food (ibid.), that they were in effect badmouthing God (the snake is a symbol of slander).BTW, it's wilderness, not desert.
The serpent is supposed to represent evil or temptation or sin. You could say it represents the devil basically who always tempts humanity.