Judges 17:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had dedicate the silver to the Lord of mine hand for my son, to make [a]a graven and molten image. Now therefore I will give it thee again.
4 And when he had restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, which made thereof a graven and molten image, and it was in the house of Micah.
5 And this man Micah had an house of gods, and made an (A)[b]Ephod, and (B)[c]Teraphim, and [d]consecrated one of his sons, who was his Priest.
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- Judges 17:3 Contrary to the commandment of God and true religion practiced under Joshua, they forsook the Lord and fell to idolatry.
- Judges 17:5 He would serve both God and Idols.
- Judges 17:5 By Teraphim some understand certain idols, having the likeness of a man, but others understand thereby all manner of things and instruments belonging unto those, who sought for any answer at God’s hands, as Judg. 18:5,6.
- Judges 17:5 Hebrew, filled the hand of one.
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