Judges 17:3

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Summary

And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, 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: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

I had wholly

Judges 17:13

Judges 18:5

Isaiah 66:3

A graven image

General references

Exodus 32:3

Bible References

I had wholly

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, seeing I have a Levite as priest.”

They said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether our way on which we are going will be prosperous.”

“But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man;
He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck;
He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood;
He who

burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol.

As they have chosen their own ways,
And their soul delights in their abominations,

A graven image

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am the Lord your God.

You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place.

Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

To whom then will you liken God?

Or what likeness will you compare with Him?

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

For the customs of the peoples are

delusion;

Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

General references

Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.