He took away the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the (A)brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it, and he called it [a]Nehushtan.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:4 That is, a piece of Brass: thus he calleth the serpent by contempt, which notwithstanding was set up by the word of God, and miracles were wrought by it: yet when it was abused to idolatry this good king destroyed it, not thinking it worthy to be called a serpent, but a piece of brass.

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