Hezekiah and Serpent

Catholics use the brazen serpent Moses fashioned in the wilderness as an example of making images for worship, we should give a record of what God thought.

The serpent was made to look at for salvation in the wilderness, not as a memorial for worship later after enteing the promised land. Israel kept the image as an act of worship.

It was destroyed by Hezekiah with God's approval.

2Ki 18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.

2Ki 18:4 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.

God never gave Israel permission to burn incense to the image as Catholics do with their images. It was an example of unauthorized worship from human invention.

Thus catholics use the example of the brazen image incorrectly. Hezekiah referred to the practice as Nehushtan, many believing it means contemptable.