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Gjyqtarët 17:4

Pas kthimit të argjendit nënes së tij, e ëma mori dyqind sikla argjendi dhe ia dha shkrirësit, i cili bëri një shëmbëlltyrë të gdhendur dhe një figurë me derdhje metali; dhe këto u vendosën në shtëpinë e Mikahut.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Money;   Thompson Chain Reference - Arts and Crafts;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arts of the;   Idolatry;   Metals;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jonathan;   Judges;   Teraphim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Idol, idolatry;   Refine;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Finer;   Idol;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jonathan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Minerals and Metals;   Occupations and Professions in the Bible;   Silversmith;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bethlehem;   Israel;   Levi;   Micah, Micaiah;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Silver ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jonathan;   Micah;   Teraphim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Piece of Silver;   Teraphim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bethlehem;   Ephod (1);   Ezekiel;   Founder;   Images;   Israel, History of the People;   Israel, Religion of;   Jonathan (1);   Judges, Period of;   Micah (1);   Names, Proper;   Priests and Levites;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Artisans;   Micah;   Sacrifice;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 15;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

two hundred: Isaiah 46:6, Isaiah 46:7, Jeremiah 10:9, Jeremiah 10:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:19 - images Exodus 32:3 - General Exodus 32:4 - These Judges 18:17 - the graven 2 Chronicles 22:3 - his mother Isaiah 30:22 - thy graven images of silver Isaiah 40:19 - General Isaiah 44:13 - that it may

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet he restored the money unto his mother,.... Gave it to her a second tithe, not as disapproving her idolatrous intention, as the sequel shows, but being desirous to be entirely free of it, and not have his mind disturbed with it as it had been, and that she might do with it as she thought fit:

and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image, and a molten image; the other nine hundred pieces she kept to herself, repenting of her vow, and being unwilling to part with so much money for such an use; or else they were laid out in an ephod, and teraphim, and what else were thought necessary for the idolatrous worship they were about to set up; though Kimchi is of opinion, that the two hundred shekels were what she gave the founder for making the images, and of the nine hundred the images were made; and indeed the images must be very small ones, if made out of two hundred shekels of silver only; some have thought there was but one image, called both molten and graven; because after the silver was melted, and cast into a mould, it was fashioned with a graving tool, as the golden calf was by Aaron; but they are manifestly distinguished and represented as two, Judges 18:17 and they were in the house of Micah; in an apartment in his house, peculiar for them, as appears by the next verse; here they were put and continued.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Judges 8:27, note; Genesis 31:19, note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 17:4. A graven image and a molten image — What these images were, we cannot positively say; they were most probably some resemblance of matters belonging to the tabernacle. See below.


 
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