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Nehushta Copper, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem, and the wife of Jehoiakin (Kg2 24:8), king of Judah. Nehushtan Of copper; a brazen thing a name of contempt given to the serpent Moses had made in the wilderness (Num 21:8), and which Hezekiah destroyed because the children of Israel began to regard it as an idol and "burn incense to it." The lapse of nearly one thousand years had invested the "brazen serpent" with a mysterious sanctity; and in order to deliver the people from their…

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