What is the Nehushtan?
Q: What is the Nehushtan?
A: The Nehushtan is a bronze serpent on a pole first described in the Book of Numbers.
Q: Who told Moses to make it?
A: God told Moses to make it.
Q: What was its purpose?
A: Its purpose was to cure the Israelites from the deathly bites of "fiery serpents" that had been sent by God as punishment for speaking against Him and Moses.
Q: When was King Hezekiah's iconoclastic reform?
A: King Hezekiah's iconoclastic reform occurred around 550 BCE, as recorded in the Books of Kings (2 Kings 18:4).
Q: What did this require?
A: This required the destruction of "the brazen serpent that Moses had made".
Q: What does Nehushtan mean?
A: Nehushtan means "a brazen thing, a mere piece of brass".
