Judges 17:3

The Scriptures 2009

And he gave back the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I had truly set apart the silver from my hand to יהוה for my son, to make a carved image and a moulded image, and now, I give it back to you.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:7

And he placed a carved image of the idol which he had made, in the House of Elohim, of which Elohim had said to Dawiḏ and to Shelomoh his son, “In this house and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, I put My Name forever,

Exodus 20:23

‘You do not make besides Me mighty ones of silver, and you do not make mighty ones of gold for yourselves.

Exodus 20:4

“You do not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth,

Exodus 34:17

“Do not make a moulded mighty one for yourselves.

Isaiah 30:22

And you shall defile the covering of your graven images of silver, and the plating of your moulded images of gold. You shall throw them away as a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Be gone!”

Isaiah 66:3

"But whoever slays the bull strikes a man; whoever slaughters the lamb breaks a dog’s neck; whoever brings a grain offering – pig’s blood; whoever burns incense blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways, and their being delights in their abominations.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both brutish and foolish, an instruction of worthlessness is the tree.

Leviticus 19:4

‘Do not turn to idols, and do not make for yourselves moulded mighty ones. I am יהוה your Elohim.

John 16:2

“They shall put you out of the congregations, but an hour is coming when everyone who kills you shall think he is rendering service to Elohim.

Deuteronomy 12:3

And you shall break down their slaughter-places, and smash their pillars, and burn their Ashĕrim with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their mighty ones and shall destroy their name out of that place.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed is the man who makes a carved or moulded image, an abomination to יהוה, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amĕn!’

Judges 17:13

And Miḵah said, “Now I know that יהוה does good to me, since I have a Lĕwite as priest!”

Judges 17:2

And he said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, and on which you put a curse, even saying it in my ears. Look, the silver is with me, I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed of יהוה be my son!”

Judges 17:4

And he gave the silver back to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a moulded image. And they were in the house of Miḵahu.

Judges 18:30

And the children of Dan set up for themselves the carved image. And Yehonathan son of Gĕreshom, son of Menashsheh, and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day the land was taken into exile.

Judges 18:5

And they said to him, “Please inquire of Elohim, and we shall know whether the journey on which we are going is prosperous.”