He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the idol poles, and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made: for until those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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Richard Challoner
AD 1781
And he called its name Nohestan: That is, their brass; or a little brass. So he called it in contempt, because they had made an idol of it.