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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Nehushtan (A male deity in the Old Testament)
Hezekiah's scornful name for the bronze serpent Moses had made in the wilderness. People had taken to burning incense to it, so Hezekiah broke it up, calling it a mere piece of bronze.
Hezekiah's scornful name for the bronze serpent Moses had made in the wilderness. People had taken to burning incense to it, so Hezekiah broke it up, calling it a mere piece of bronze.
Nehushtan is the contemptuous name King Hezekiah gave to the bronze serpent Moses had made in the wilderness to heal those bitten by venomous snakes (Numbers 21:8-9). Over the centuries Israelites had begun burning incense to the relic as an idol, so Hezekiah destroyed it as part of his religious reforms, dismissing it as “a mere piece of bronze” (2 Kings 18:4).
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- 2 Kings 18:4
