Kehushtan
Kehushtan
Kehushtan (ne-hsh’tan), the brazen thing. The serpent of brassor copperwhich Moses made by God’s command in the wilderness, Num 21:8-9, was preserved for many ages. Hezekiah, perceiving that the people had been in the habit of paying a superstitious reverence to it, broke it up. 2Ki 18:4. Probably Nehushtan was the name by which it had been ordinarily known; though some believe it a term of contempt then first applied.