Antique Biblical Etching Nehushtan Serpent Brazen Moses C Huyberts 61oz Hoet for Sale

Antique Biblical Etching Nehushtan Serpent Brazen Moses C Huyberts 61oz Hoet For Sale

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Antique Biblical Etching Nehushtan Serpent Brazen Moses C Huyberts 61oz Hoet:
$136.73

Dimensions / Size : The sheet: 41 cm by 24 cm.The board: 35.5 cm by 22 cm.

Original engraving from 1728 on beautiful laid paper.
Some small defects in the margins, and minor foxing.Beautiful copy.

Artist : after Gerard I HOET (1648-1733).Engraver : Cornelis HUYBERTS (1669-c.1712).
In transparency:
Quick and neat delivery . Oct 47
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In the biblical Books of Kings (2 Kings 18:4; written c. 550 BCE), the Nehushtan (Hebrew: נחשתן Nəḥuštān [nə.ħuʃ.taːn]) is the derogatory name given to the bronze serpent on a pole first described in the Book of Numbers which God told Moses to erect so that the Israelites who saw it would be protected from dying from the bites of the "fiery serpents", which God had sent to punish them for speaking against him and Moses (Numbers 21:4 -9). In Kings, King Hezekiah institutes an iconoclastic reform that requires the destruction of "the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan". The term means "a brazen thing, a mere piece of brass".[1]

In the biblical books Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, Nadab (Hebrew: נָדָב, Modern: Nadav, Tiberian: Nāḏāḇ, "generous") and Abihu (Hebrew: אֲב�In the biblical Books of Kings (2 Kings 18:4; written c. 550 BCE), the Nehushtan (Hebrew: נחשתן Nəḥuštān [nə.ħuʃ.taːn]) is the derogatory name given to the bronze serpent on a pole first described in the Book of Numbers which God told Moses to erect so that the Israelites who saw it would be protected from dying from the bites of the "fiery serpents", which God had sent to punish them for speaking against him and Moses (Numbers 21:4 -9). In Kings, King Hezekiah institutes an iconoclastic reform that requires the destruction of "the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan". The term means "a brazen thing, a mere piece of brass".[1] In the biblical books Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, Nadab (Hebrew