Serpents: Often Sent As a Punishment
Source: TTT
Numbers 21:6
So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
Deuteronomy 32:24
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
1 Corinthians 10:9
We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.