2 Kings 18:4

KJV

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

— 2 Kings 18:4, King James Version
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Context

This verse from 2 Kings Chapter 18 connects to 10 cross-references. Hezekiah reigns twenty-nine years in Judah, doing right and trusting in God unlike any king before or after; he removes the high places, destroys the bronze serpent Moses made. The Assyrian king Sennacherib invades Judah and takes its fortified cities; …

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Other Translations

ASV

He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

YLT

he hath turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cut down the shrine, and beaten down the brazen serpent that Moses made, for unto these days were the sons of Israel making perfume to it, and he calleth it `a piece of brass.'

BBE

He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

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