Judges 17:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then he returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I consecrate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make an idol of cast metal.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:7

The carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;

Exodus 20:23

You shall not make gods of silver alongside me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

Exodus 20:4

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

Exodus 34:17

“You shall not make cast idols.

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like impure things; you will say to them, “Away with you!”

Isaiah 66:3

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human, whoever sacrifices a lamb like one who breaks a dog’s neck, whoever presents a grain offering like one who offers pig’s blood, whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense like one who blesses an idol. Just as these have chosen their own ways and in their abominations they take delight,

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn to idols or make cast images for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God.

Deuteronomy 12:3

Break down their altars, smash their pillars, burn their sacred poles with fire, and cut down the idols of their gods, and thus blot out their name from their places.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who makes an idol or casts an image, anything abhorrent to the Lord, the work of an artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall respond, saying, ‘Amen!’

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me because the Levite has become my priest.”

Judges 17:2

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse and even spoke it in my hearing—that silver is in my possession; I took it, but now I will return it to you.” And his mother said, “May my son be blessed by the Lord!” And his mother said, “May my son be blessed by the Lord!”

Judges 17:4

So when he returned the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into an idol of cast metal, and it was in the house of Micah.

Judges 18:30

Then the Danites set up the idol for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom son of Moses and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the time the land went into captivity.

Judges 18:5

Then they said to him, “Inquire of God that we may know whether the mission we are undertaking will succeed.”