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Selected Verse: Judges 17:4 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jud 17:4 |
Strong Concordance |
Yet he restored [07725] the money [03701] unto his mother [0517]; and his mother [0517] took [03947] two hundred [03967] shekels of silver [03701], and gave [05414] them to the founder [06884], who made [06213] thereof a graven image [06459] and a molten image [04541]: and they were in the house [01004] of Micah [04321]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| See Jdg 8:27, note; Gen 31:19, note. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Restored - Though his mother allowed him to keep it, yet he persisted in his resolution to restore it, that she might dispose of it as she pleased. Two hundred - Reserving nine hundred shekels, either for the ephod or teraphim, or for other things relating to this worship. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
19 And Laban [03837] went [01980] to shear [01494] his sheep [06629]: and Rachel [07354] had stolen [01589] the images [08655] that were her father's [01].
27 And Gideon [01439] made [06213] an ephod [0646] thereof, and put [03322] it in his city [05892], even in Ophrah [06084]: and all Israel [03478] went thither a whoring [02181] after [0310] it: which thing became a snare [04170] unto Gideon [01439], and to his house [01004].