Bible Verses About Serpents: Often sent as a punishment

In response, ADONAI sent poisonous snakes among the people; they bit the people, and many of Isra'el's people died.

"'Fatigued by hunger, they will be consumed by fever and bitter defeat; I will send them the fangs of wild beasts, and the poison of reptiles crawling in the dust.

And let us not put the Messiah to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.