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 know I that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite to my priest."

They said to him, "Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous."

He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

A graven image

"You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

"'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

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

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

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.

"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

General references

All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.