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.

14 With the kings and counselors of the earth, which have built themselves [a]desolate places:

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:14 He noteth the ambition of them, which for their pleasure as it were change the order of nature, and build in most barren places, because they would hereby make their names immortal.

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