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He was (A)twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was (B)Abi the daughter of Zechariah. (C)And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. (D)He removed the high places and broke the (E)pillars and cut down (F)the Asherah. And he broke in pieces (G)the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).[a]

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  1. 2 Kings 18:4 Nehushtan sounds like the Hebrew for both bronze and serpent