Judges 17:4 · Clearspring

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WEBBE

When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.

BSB

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

KJV

Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

ASV

And when he restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.

BBE

So he gave the silver back to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a metal-worker who made a pictured image and a metal image from them: and it was in the house of Micah.

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וַיָּשֶׁב vai·ya·shev and he brought back H7725 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 הַכֶּסֶף ha·ke·sef the silver H3701 לְאִמּוֹ le·'i·mo to mother his H517 וַתִּקַּח va·ti·kach and she took H3947 אִמּוֹ 'i·mo mother his H517 מָאתַיִם ma·ta·yim two hundred H3967 כֶּסֶף ke·sef silver H3701 וַתִּתְּנֵהוּ va·ti·te·ne·hu and she gave it H5414 לַצּוֹרֵף la·tzo·ref to the silversmith H6884 וַיַּעֲשֵׂהוּ vai·ya·'a·se·hu and he made it H6213 פֶּסֶל pe·sel a carved image H6459 וּמַסֵּכָה u·ma·se·khah and a molten image H4541 וַיְהִי vay·hi and it was H1961 בְּבֵית be·veit in [the] house of H1004 מִיכָיְהוּ mi·kha·ye·hu Micaiah H4321

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–6

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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