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Judges 17:5 KJV
Judges · chapter 17 · verse 5
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.Judges 17:5 · King James Version
Judges 17:5 in context
3And 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.
4Yet 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.
5And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
6In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
7And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- consecratedmâlêʼto fill or be full of, in a wide applicationH4390 →
- consecratedyâda handH3027 →
- teraphimtᵉrâphîymTeraphim a family idolH8655 →
- MicahMîykâhMicah, the name of seven IsraelitesH4318 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- ephodʼêphôwda girdleH646 →
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Here we have, I. Micah and his mother quarrelling. 1. The son robs the mother. The old woman had hoarded, with long scraping and saving, a great sum of money, 1100 pieces of silver. It is likely she intended, when she died, to leave it to her son: in the mean time it did her good to look upon it, and to count it over.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6