Gjyqtarët 17:3

Shqip Bible

Kështu ai ia ktheu nënes së tij të një mijë e njëqind siklat prej argjendi dhe e ëma tha: "Unë ia shenjtëroj plotësisht nga dora ime këtë argjend Zotit për birin tim, për ta bërë një shëmbëlltyrë të gdhendur dhe një figurë me derdhje prandaj po ta kthej tani".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I had wholly: Judges 17:13, Judges 18:5, Isaiah 66:3

a graven image: Exodus 20:4, Exodus 20:23, Leviticus 19:4, Deuteronomy 12:3, Psalms 115:4-8, Isaiah 40:18-25, Isaiah 44:9-20, Jeremiah 10:3-5, Jeremiah 10:8, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19, John 16:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:3 - General Exodus 32:4 - These Isaiah 30:22 - thy graven images of silver Isaiah 46:6 - lavish

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother,.... The whole sum, having embezzled none of it:

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; this she had done either before it was stolen, and it troubled her the more, and caused her the rather to curse the man that had taken it; or after it was stolen, that if it should be recovered again she would appropriate it to such an use; so Abarbinel; and by the Lord, or Jehovah, she doubtless meant the true God; for she had no intention to forsake him, but to worship him in and by these images, and which she designed for the use of her son and his family, that they might not go so far as Shiloh to worship at the tabernacle there:

therefore I will restore it unto thee; for that use, and so gave him the money again, to be laid out in images, or to make images of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Such a superstitious and unlawful mode of worshipping Yahweh is quite of a piece with Judges 8:27; Judges 11:31; 1 Kings 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 17:3. 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.