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Judges 17:4
King James Version (KJV)
Adam Clarke
Bible Commentary
Bible Commentary
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.
Albert Barnes
Notes on the Whole Bible
Notes on the Whole Bible
See Judges 8:27, note; Genesis 31:19, note.
Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary
Concise Bible Commentary
What is related in this, and the rest of the chapters to the end of this book, was done soon after the death of Joshua: see chap. Jud 20:28. That it might appear how happy the nation was under the Judges, here is showed how unhappy they were when there was no Judge. The love of money made Micah so undutiful to his mother as to rob her, and made her so unkind to her son, as to curse him. Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses. This woman's silver was her god, before it was made into a graven or a molten image. Micah and his mother agreed to turn their money into a god, and set up idol worship in their family. See the cause of this corruption. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and then they soon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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The Period of the Judges
