Judges 17:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, ‘I personally consecrate  the silver to the Lord for my son’s benefit to make a carved image and a silver idol.  I will give it back to you.’

Cross References

Exodus 20:4

Do not make an idol  for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn to worthless idols  or make cast images  of gods for yourselves;  I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 20:23

Do not make gods of silver to rival me; do not make gods of gold for yourselves.

John 16:2

They will ban you from the synagogues.   In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service   to God.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Isaiah 66:3

One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person; one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck; one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood; one person offers incense, another praises an idol – all these have chosen their ways and delight in their abhorrent practices.

Judges 18:5

Then they said to him, ‘Please enquire of God  for us to determine if we will have a successful journey.’

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, ‘Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.’

Deuteronomy 12:3

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every  place.

Exodus 34:17

‘Do not make cast images  of gods for yourselves.

Judges 17:2

He said to his mother, ‘The 1,100 pieces of silver taken from you, and that I heard you place a curse on #– #here’s the silver. I took it.’ Then his mother said, ‘My son, may you be blessed by the Lord! ’

Judges 17:4

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took 2.5 kilograms of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image and a silver idol, and it was in Micah’s house.

Judges 18:30

The Danites set up the carved image for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Moses,  and his sons were priests for the Danite tribe until the time of the exile from the land.

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.” And all the people will reply, “Amen! ”

2 Chronicles 33:7

Manasseh  set up a carved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s temple  that God had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: ‘I will establish my name for ever  , in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.