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Selected Verse: Judges 17:3 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
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Jud 17:3 |
Strong Concordance |
And when he had restored [07725] the eleven hundred [0505] [03967] shekels of silver [03701] to his mother [0517], his mother [0517] said [0559], I had wholly [06942] dedicated [06942] the silver [03701] unto the LORD [03068] from my hand [03027] for my son [01121], to make [06213] a graven image [06459] and a molten image [04541]: now therefore I will restore [07725] it unto thee. |
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King James |
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
a graven image and a molten image--The one carved from a block of wood or stone, to be plated over with silver; the other, a figure formed of the solid metal cast into a mould. It is observable, however, that only two hundred shekels were given to the founder. Probably the expense of making two such figures of silver, with their appurtenances (pedestals, bases, &c.), might easily cost, in those days, two hundred shekels, which (at 2 shillings, 4 pence each, is about 23 pounds) would be a sum not adequate to the formation of large statues [TAYLOR, Fragments]. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Such a superstitious and unlawful mode of worshipping Yahweh is quite of a piece with Jdg 8:27; Jdg 11:31; Kg1 12:28, etc. It argues but slight acquaintance with the Ten Commandments, which, from the ignorance of reading and writing, were probably not familiar to the Israelites in those unsettled times. The mother intimates that the consecration of the silver was for the benefit of her son and his house, not for her own selfish advantage: and that she adheres to her original design of consecrating this silver for her son's benefit. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
The Lord - In the Hebrew it is, Jehovah, the incommunicable name of God. Whereby it is apparent, that neither she, nor her son, intended to forsake the true God; as appears from his rejoicing when he had got a priest of the Lord's appointment, but only to worship God by an image; which also both the Israelites, Exo 32:1, &c. and Jeroboam afterwards, designed to do. For my son - For the benefit of thyself and family; that you need not be continually going to Shiloh to worship, but may do it at home. To thee - To dispose of, as I say. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
I had wholly dedicated - From this it appears that Micah's mother, though she made a superstitious use of the money, had no idolatrous design, for she expressly says she had dedicated it ליהוה layhovah, to Jehovah; and this appears to have been the reason why she poured imprecations on him who had taken it. |
28 Whereupon the king [04428] took counsel [03289], and made [06213] two [08147] calves [05695] of gold [02091], and said [0559] unto them, It is too much [07227] for you to go up [05927] to Jerusalem [03389]: behold thy gods [0430], O Israel [03478], which brought thee up [05927] out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever [03318] cometh forth [03318] of the doors [01817] of my house [01004] to meet [07125] me, when I return [07725] in peace [07965] from the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], shall surely be the LORD'S [03068], and I will offer it up [05927] for a burnt offering [05930].
27 And Gideon [01439] made [06213] an ephod [0646] thereof, and put [03322] it in his city [05892], even in Ophrah [06084]: and all Israel [03478] went thither a whoring [02181] after [0310] it: which thing became a snare [04170] unto Gideon [01439], and to his house [01004].
1 And when the people [05971] saw [07200] that Moses [04872] delayed [0954] to come down [03381] out of the mount [02022], the people [05971] gathered themselves together [06950] unto Aaron [0175], and said [0559] unto him, Up [06965], make [06213] us gods [0430], which shall go [03212] before [06440] us; for as for this Moses [04872], the man [0376] that brought [05927] us up out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], we wot [03045] not what is become of him.