Bible Verses About Serpents: Often sent as a punishment

And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

They shall bewasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.