Judges 17:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

And when he had restored the money vnto his mother, his mother tooke two hundreth shekels of siluer, and gaue them to the founder, which made thereof a grauen and molten image, and it was in the house of Michah.

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  • Isa 46:6-7 : 6 They draw gold out of the bagge & weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, and they bowe downe, and worship it. 7 They beare it vpon the shoulders: they carie him and set him in his place: so doeth he stand, and cannot remoue from his place. Though one crie vnto him, yet can he not answere, nor deliuer him out of his tribulation.
  • Jer 10:9-9 : 9 Siluer plates are brought from Tarshish, & golde from Vphaz, for the worke of the workeman, and the handes of the founder: the blewe silke, and the purple is their clothing: all these things are made by cunning men. 10 But the Lord is the God of trueth: he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King: at his anger the earth shal tremble, and the nations cannot abide his wrath.

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  • Judg 17:1-3
    3 verses
    93%

    1There was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Michah,

    2And he saide vnto his mother, The eleuen hundreth shekels of siluer that were taken from thee, for the which thou cursedst, and spakedst it, euen in mine hearing, beholde, the siluer is with me, I tooke it. Then his mother saide, Blessed be my sonne of the Lorde.

    3And when he had restored the eleuen hundreth shekels of siluer to his mother, his mother sayd, I had dedicate the siluer to the Lord of mine hand for my sonne, to make a grauen and molten image. Now therfore I will giue it thee again.

  • Judg 17:5
    82%

    5And this man Michah had an house of gods, & made an Ephod, and Teraphim, & cosecrated one of his sonnes, who was his Priest.

  • Judg 18:17-20
    4 verses
    77%

    17Then the fiue men that went to spie out the land, went in thither, and tooke the grauen image and the Ephod, and the Teraphim, and the molten image: and the Priest stoode in the entring of the gate with the sixe hundreth men, that were appointed with weapons of warre,

    18And the other went into Michahs house and fet the grauen image, the Ephod, and the Teraphim, and the molten image. Then saide the Priest vnto them, What doe ye?

    19And they answered him, Holde thy peace: lay thine hande vpon thy mouth, and come with vs to be our father and Priest. Whether is it better that thou shouldest be a Priest vnto ye house of one man, or that thou shouldest be a Priest vnto a tribe and to a familie in Israel?

    20And the Priestes heart was glad, and hee tooke the Ephod and the Teraphim, and the grauen image, and went among the people.

  • Judg 18:31
    74%

    31So they set them vp the grauen image, which Michah had made, all the while the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • Judg 17:8-13
    6 verses
    73%

    8And the man departed out of the citie, euen out of Beth-lehem Iudah, to dwell where he coulde finde a place: and as he iourneyed, he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Michah

    9And Michah saide vnto him, Whence comest thou? And the Leuite answered him, I come from Beth-lehem Iudah, and goe to dwell where I may finde a place.

    10Then Michah said vnto him, Dwell with me, and be vnto me a father and a Priest, and I will giue thee ten shekels of siluer by yeere, and a sute of apparell, and thy meate and drinke. So the Leuite went in.

    11And the Leuite was content to dwel with the man, and the yong man was vnto him as one of his owne sonnes.

    12And Michah consecrated the Leuite, and the yong man was his Priest, and was in the house of Michah.

    13Then said Michah, Nowe I know that the Lord will be good vnto me, seeing I haue a Leuite to my Priest.

  • Judg 18:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13And they went thence vnto mount Ephraim, and came to the house of Michah.

    14Then answered the fiue men, that went to spie out the countrey of Laish, & said vnto their brethren, Knowe ye not, that there is in these houses an Ephod, and Teraphim, and a grauen & a molten image? Nowe therefore consider what ye haue to doe.

    15And they turned thitherward & came to the house of the yong man the Leuite, euen vnto the house of Michah, and saluted him peaceably.

  • Judg 18:4
    70%

    4And he answered them, Thus and thus dealeth Michah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his Priest.

  • Isa 40:19
    70%

    19The workeman melteth an image, or the goldsmith beateth it out in golde, or the goldesmith maketh siluer plates.

  • Zech 11:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12And I said vnto them, If ye thinke it good, giue me my wages: and if no, leaue off: so they weighed for my wages thirtie pieces of siluer.

    13And the Lord said vnto me, Cast it vnto the potter: a goodly price, that I was valued at of them; I tooke the thirtie pieces of siluer, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.

  • Isa 46:6
    69%

    6They draw gold out of the bagge & weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, and they bowe downe, and worship it.

  • 2 Kgs 18:15
    68%

    15Therefore Hezekiah gaue all the siluer that was found in the house of the Lorde, and in the treasures of the Kings house.

  • 2 Chr 34:17
    68%

    17For they haue gathered the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and haue deliuered it into the handes of the ouerseers, and to the handes of the workemen.

  • 2 Chr 34:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9And when they came to Hilkiah the hie Priest, they deliuered ye money that was brought into the house of God, which the Leuites that kept the doore, had gathered at the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and of all the residue of Israel, and of all Iudah and Beniamin, and of the inhabitantes of Ierusalem.

    10And they put it in the hands of them that should doe the worke and had the ouersight in the house of the Lorde: and they gaue it to the workemen that wrought in the house of ye Lorde, to repaire and amend the house.

  • 2 Kgs 12:10
    68%

    10And when they sawe there was much money in the chest, the Kinges Secretarie came vp and the hie Priest, and put it vp after that they had tolde the money that was found in the house of the Lord,

  • Num 3:50
    68%

    50Of the first borne of the children of Israel tooke he the mony: eue a thousand three hundreth three score and fiue shekels after the shekel of the Sanctuarie.

  • Exod 32:4
    67%

    4Who receiued them at their handes, and facioned it with the grauing toole, & made of it a molte calfe: then they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of ye lad of Egypt

  • Exod 32:24
    67%

    24Then I sayde to them, Ye that haue golde, plucke it off: and they brought it me, & I did cast it into the fire, and thereof came this calfe.

  • Exod 38:27-29
    3 verses
    67%

    27Moreouer there were an hundreth talentes of siluer, to cast ye sockets of ye Sanctuary, and the sockets of the vaile: an hundreth sockets of an hundreth talents, a talent for a socket.

    28But he made the hookes for the pillars of a thousande seuen hundreth and seuentie and fiue shekels, and ouerlayde their chapiters, and made filets about them.

    29Also the brasse of the offering was seuentie talents, and two thousande, and foure hundreth shekels.

  • Exod 37:24
    67%

    24Of a talent of pure golde made he it with all the instruments thereof.

  • Isa 44:17
    67%

    17And the residue thereof he maketh a god, euen his idole: he boweth vnto it, and worshippeth and prayeth vnto it, and sayeth, Deliuer me: for thou art my god.

  • Judg 9:4
    67%

    4And they gaue him seuentie pieces of siluer out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vayne and light fellowes which followed him.

  • 2 Kgs 15:20
    67%

    20And Menahem exacted the money in Israel, that all men of substance shoulde giue the King of Asshur fiftie shekels of siluer a piece: so the king of Asshur returned and taried not there in the land.

  • Judg 18:24
    67%

    24And hee saide, Yee haue taken away my gods, which I made, and the Priest, and go your wayes: and what haue I more? Howe then say ye vnto me, what ayleth thee?

  • Num 18:16
    67%

    16And those that are to bee redeemed, shalt thou redeeme from the age of a moneth, according to thy estimation, for the money of fiue shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, which is twentie gerahs.

  • Joel 3:5
    66%

    5For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, and haue caried into your temples my goodly and pleasant things.

  • Ezra 8:26
    66%

    26And I weighed vnto their hand sixe hundreth and fiftie talents of siluer, and in siluer vessel, an hundreth talents, and in golde, an hundreth talents:

  • 2 Kgs 12:14
    66%

    14But they gaue it to the workemen, which repayred therewith the house of the Lord.

  • Hos 13:2
    66%

    2And nowe they sinne more and more, and haue made them molten images of their siluer, and idoles according to their owne vnderstanding: they were all the woorke of the craftesmen: they say one to another whiles they sacrifice a man, Let them kisse the calues.

  • Jer 32:9
    66%

    9And I bought the field of Hanameel, mine vncles sonne, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the siluer, euen seuen shekels, and tenne pieces of siluer.

  • Exod 25:39
    66%

    39Of a talent of fine gold shalt thou make it with all these instruments.

  • 1 Chr 28:14
    66%

    14He gaue of golde by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of all maner of seruice, and all the vessels of siluer by weight, for all maner vessels of all maner of seruice.

  • 2 Chr 15:18
    66%

    18Also he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicate, and that he had dedicate, siluer, and golde, and vessels.