Judges 17:4
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.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Yet he restored the money unto his mother,.... Gave it to her a second tithe, not as disapproving her idolatrous intention, as the sequel shows, but being desirous to be entirely free of it, and not…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
two hundredpieces of silver Because the whole sum was given to Jehovah it does not follow that the whole was wanted for the image. Elsewhere the founderis a maker of idols, Isa 40:19; Isa 41:7.