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It appeared in surrounding areas, including the Esagila or temple of Marduk as tutelary deity in Babylon, where pairs of bronze serpents were erected beside each entrance to the temple. [9] According to Lowell K. Handy, the Nehushtan may have been the symbol of a deity for snakebite cure within the Temple in Jerusalem. [10]
In 2 Kings 18:4, a bronze serpent, alleged to be the one Moses made, was kept in Jerusalem's Temple [2] sanctuary. [26] The Israelites began to worship the object as an idol or image of God, by offering sacrifices and burning incense to it, until Hezekiah was made King. Hezekiah referred to it as Nehushtan [31] and had torn it down. Scholars ...
According to the Bible, Hezekiah purified and repaired the Temple, purged its idols, and reformed the priesthood. [19] In an effort to abolish idolatry from his kingdom, he destroyed the high places (or bamot) and the "bronze serpent" (or Nehushtan), recorded as being made by Moses, which had become objects of idolatrous worship. In place of ...
The Temple of Eshmun is found 1 km from Sidon on the Bostrenus (now called the Awali in southwestern Lebanon). Building was begun at the end of the sixth century BCE during the reign of Eshmunazar II, King of Sidon, and later additions were made up into the Roman period. It was excavated by Maurice Dunand in 1963–1978.
Nehushtan, a staff of bronze made by Moses to erect so that the Israelites who saw it would be protected from dying from the bites of the "fiery serpents". ( Jewish mythology ) Rod of Asclepius , a serpent-entwined rod wielded by Asclepius , a deity associated with healing and medicine.
This pavilion houses a Midianite temple model. Of special interest is the copper snake with gilded head found in the Midianite shrine, reminding of the biblical Nehushtan, [2] "the bronze serpent that Moses had made" (Numbers 21:4–9; 2 Kings 18:4).
He institutes a far-reaching religious reform: centralising sacrifice at the temple in Jerusalem, and destroying the images of other gods, including the Nehushtan, the bronze snake Moses erected in the wilderness, which the Israelites have turned into an idol. He breaks his alliance with the Assyrians and defeats the Philistines.
His main temple was known simply as E-Gishbanda, [13] "house of Gishbanda," and it was commonly listed alongside the main temple of his father Ninazu, E-Gidda. [14] He also had a temple in Lagash, the E-badbarra, "house, outer wall." [15] Yet another one was built in Girsu by Gudea, though its name is unknown. [16]