Verse 4
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Serpent — The most of them, or such as the people most frequented: for all were not taken away, chap23:13,14, tho' his own father had set them up. We must never dishonour God, in honour to our earthly parents.
Brazen serpent — Which had been hitherto kept as a memorial of God's mercy; but being now commonly abused to superstition, was destroyed.
To it — Not doubtless as to a god, but only as to an instrument of God's mercy, by and through which, their adoration was directed to God, and given to that only for God's sake.
Nehushtan — He said, this serpent, howsoever formerly honoured, and used by God as a sign of his grace, yet now it is nothing but a piece of brass which can do you neither good nor hurt.
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