Judges 17:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He said to his mother,“You know the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole it, but now I am giving it back to you.” His mother said,“May the LORD reward you, my son!”

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 13:25 : 25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying,“You will not marry off your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!
  • Ruth 3:10 : 10 He said,“May you be rewarded by the LORD, my dear! This act of devotion is greater than what you did before. For you have not sought to marry one of the young men, whether rich or poor.
  • 1 Sam 14:24 : 24 Jonathan Violates Saul’s Oath Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath:“Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.
  • 1 Sam 14:28 : 28 Then someone from the army informed him,“Your father put the army under a strict oath saying,‘Cursed be the man who eats food today!’ That is why the army is tired.”
  • 1 Sam 15:13 : 13 When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him,“May the LORD bless you! I have fulfilled the LORD’s orders.”
  • 1 Sam 23:21 : 21 Saul replied,“May you be blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me.
  • 1 Sam 26:19 : 19 So let my lord the king now listen to the words of his servant. If the LORD has incited you against me, may he take delight in an offering. But if men have instigated this, may they be cursed before the LORD! For they have driven me away this day from being united with the LORD’s inheritance, saying,‘Go on, serve other gods!’
  • Gen 14:19 : 19 He blessed Abram, saying,“Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.
  • Gen 24:30-31 : 30 When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say,“This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring. 31 Laban said to him,“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?”
  • Exod 20:7 : 7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 ‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
  • Judg 5:23 : 23 ‘Call judgment down on Meroz,’ says the LORD’s angel;‘Be sure to call judgment down on those who live there, because they did not come to help in the LORD’s battle, to help in the LORD’s battle against the warriors.’
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the LORD.
  • Prov 28:24 : 24 The one who robs his father and mother and says,“There is no transgression,” is a companion to the one who destroys.
  • Jer 48:10 : 10 A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the LORD’s work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!
  • Matt 26:74 : 74 At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath,“I do not know the man!” At that moment a rooster crowed.
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed– cut off from Christ– for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!
  • 2 John 1:11 : 11 because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 17:3-5
    3 verses
    89%

    3 When he gave back to his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said,“I solemnly dedicate this silver to the LORD. It will be for my son’s benefit. We will use it to make a carved image and a metal image.”

    4 When he gave the silver back to his mother, she took two hundred pieces of silver to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house.

    5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.

  • Gen 27:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12 My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”

    13 So his mother told him,“Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”

  • 1 Micah Makes His Own Religion There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.

  • 72%

    10 Micah said to him,“Stay with me. Become my adviser and priest. I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, plus clothes and food.”

    11 So the Levite agreed to stay with the man; the young man was like a son to Micah.

    12 Micah paid the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.

    13 Micah said,“Now I know the LORD will make me rich, because I have this Levite as my priest.”

  • 16 ‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • 21 I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, two hundred silver pieces, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath.”

  • 18 When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them,“What are you doing?”

  • 15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the LORD’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

  • 69%

    12 Then I said to them,“If it seems good to you, pay me my wages, but if not, forget it.” So they weighed out my payment– thirty pieces of silver.

    13 The LORD then said to me,“Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum at which they valued me!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the temple of the LORD.

  • 50 From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

  • 2 O my son, O son of my womb, O son of my vows,

  • 8 Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

  • 9 So I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out seven ounces of silver and gave it to him to pay for it.

  • 10 Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds I said,“Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.”

  • 4 He told them what Micah had done for him, saying,“He hired me and I became his priest.”

  • 2 Then put my cup– the silver cup– in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the money for his grain.” He did as Joseph instructed.

  • 5 For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

  • 20 But Isaac asked his son,“How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?”“Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.

  • 8 Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!

  • 24 He said,“You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me,‘What do you want?’”

  • 16 Yes! The king may listen and deliver his female servant from the hand of the man who seeks to remove both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’

  • 11 Joab replied to the man who was telling him this,“What! You saw this? Why didn’t you strike him down right on the spot? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a commemorative belt!”

  • 36 She said to him,“My father, since you made an oath to the LORD, do to me as you promised. After all, the LORD vindicated you before your enemies, the Ammonites.”

  • 26 I weighed out to them 650 talents of silver, silver vessels worth 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,

  • 29 If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’

  • 16 To Sarah he said,“Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your‘brother.’ This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.”

  • Ruth 3:16-17
    2 verses
    67%

    16 and she returned to her mother-in-law. Ruth Returns to NaomiWhen Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked,“How did things turn out for you, my daughter?” Ruth told her about all the man had done for her.

    17 She said,“He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me,‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

  • 16 So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth– 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.

  • 16 The man said to Eli,“I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli asked,“How did things go, my son?”

  • 18 She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”

  • 20 Then he called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

  • 14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen,“Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

  • 9 He said to his father and mother,“I have not seen him,” and he did not acknowledge his own brothers or know his own children, for they kept your word, and guarded your covenant.

  • 7 Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”

  • 11 She replied,“In that case, let the king invoke the name of the LORD your God so that the avenger of blood may not add to the killing! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied,“As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

  • 36 Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

  • 23 ‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his mother-in-law.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • 10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the LORD’s temple and bagged it up.