Judges 17:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.

And they said unto him, Ask counsel now, therefore, of God, that we may know whether he shall prosper our journey which we do.

He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense as if he blessed iniquity. They have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

A graven image

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath nor that is in the water under the earth.

Do not return unto idols nor make to yourselves molten gods. I AM your God.

and ye shall overthrow their altars and break their images and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the statues of their gods and destroy the names of them out of that place.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Those that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and that which is most precious to them is useful for nothing; and they are their own witnesses that they do not see, nor understand; therefore, they shall be ashamed.

For the customs of the peoples are vanity: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Of what profit is the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?

They shall put you out of the synagogues, and the hour will even come when whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.

General references

Then all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them unto Aaron,