The Nehushtan (or Nehustan, Hebrew: נחושתן or נחש הנחושת), in Judaism, was a sacred object in the form of a copper snake upon a pole. In the seventh century BC, King Hezekiah instituted a religious iconoclastic reform and destroyed the Nehustan (2 Kings ). Its origin as a bronze snake used by Moses to cure the Israelites from snake bites's recorded in the Book of Numbers, chapter 21:4-9 and has occasioned m… (More on Nehushtan)