Reference: Art
Hastings
Among the Hebrews the fine arts, with the possible exception of music, were not seriously cultivated (cf. Architecture). The law of Ex 20:4 constituted an effective bar to the development of the plastic art in particular. As to the nature and workmanship of the early ephods (Jg 8:27; 17:5) and teraphim (Ge 31:19; Jg 17:5; 1Sa 19:13 RV), as of the 'graven images' and the later 'molten images,' we can only speculate. Sculpture in wood, but of Ph
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Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
"Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree.
As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree.
And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.
So I went in and saw. And there, engraved on the wall all around, was every form of creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.
But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion