Judges 17:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrateda one of his sons, who became his priest. ”

Judges 17:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an (c) ephod, and (d) teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. (c) He would serve both God and idols. (d) By Teraphim some...
Judges 17:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Micah's Graven Image. The dread of a curse, uttered by an indignant mother against the unknown thief of her money, made the culprit, her own son, confess his guilt. At a certain stage of religious...
Judges 17:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

house of gods. The true house of God was neglected, and as hard to find as it is to-day ( Judges 21:19 ); and, when found, dancing was the prominent feature, not sacrifice or worship ( Judges 21:21...
Judges 17:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. The man Micah had a house of gods - בית אלהים beith Elohim should, I t...
Judges 17:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

An house of gods— This might be rendered more properly, a temple or house of God; אלהים בית beith elohim: so the LXX and the Vulgate render it, as well as Houbigant, aedes deo sacra. Micah and...
Judges 17:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. The man Micah had an house of gods, х beeyt ( H1004 ) '...
Judges 17:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Story of Micah This story, which is continued in the following c, is undoubtedly a very old one. In striking contrast to many other narrative portions of the Old Testament, there is in the bod...
Judges 17:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Had an house of gods. — The Hebrew is Beth Elohim, which may mean equally well “a house of God” (Vulg., œdiculam Deo, and so too the LXX.). It is quite clear that Micah did not abandon the wors...
Judges 17:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE STOLEN GODS Judges 17:1-13 , Judges 18:1-31 THE portion of the Book of Judges which begins with the seventeenth chapter and extends to the close is not in immediate connection with that wh...
Judges 17:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the final section of the Book of Judges which is of the nature of an appendix. The events here recorded must have taken place closely following the death of Joshua. They give us a picture...
Judges 17:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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. Here we read of many gods. And indeed, when the one true God be not t...
Judges 17:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the man Micah had an house of gods ,.... Having two images in it, besides teraphim, which were a sort of idols; and the Targum is, an house of images, or idols; though it may be rendered "an hou...
Judges 17:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 5. And the man Micah had an house of gods. ] Aediculam sacram...
Judges 17:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The man Micah had a house of gods The Hebrew בית אלהים, Beth Elohim , may more properly be translated a house of God; that is, he had made, or at least intended to make, in his own dwelling, an...
Judges 17:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

BOLD IDOLATRY IN ISRAEL (vv. 1-13) Samson was the last judge in Israel. The last five Chapter s of Judges -- 17 to 21 -- deal with conditions during the time of the Judges, so do not necessarily...
Judges 17:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Micah and His Gods. B. C. 1406. 1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was...
Judges 17:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

An house of gods, i.e. an house or place consecrated for the service of God in this manner. An ephod; an eminent part of the priestly garments, Exodus 28:4 , which, some think, is here put for...
Judges 17:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And the man Micah had a house of God (or ‘gods'), and he made an ephod and a teraphim, and installed (‘filled the hand of') one of his sons who became his priest.' The fact that he at this stag...
Judges 17:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

IDOLATRY IN ITS INCIPIENT STAGE—BY IMAGE-WORSHIP ( Judges 17:1-13 .) HOMILETICS I. Idolatry begins with those who are not upright in moral conduct. Judges 17:1-4 . Micah himself is first hea...
Judges 17:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 17:1 . A man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. This was soon after the death of Joshua, says Josephus, and before the civil war with Benjamin. Judges 17:2 . About which thou cursed...
Judges 17:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Micah. Micah’s mother In the second verse of this chapter Micah makes a clean confession of a great wrong which he had done to his mother. “It seems,” says Matthew Henry, “that this old woman,...
Judges 17:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 17:1 We here light upon quite a different kind of history from that which has preceded. We no longer have to do with judges and their mighty deeds in delivering Israel fro...
Judges 17:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Making of the Image
Judges 17:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 12:31 ; 1 Kings 13:33 ; 1 Kings 13:34 ; 1 Samuel 23:6 ; Exodus 24:5 ; Exodus 28:15 ; Exodus 28:4 ; Exodus 29:9 ; Ezra 1:7 ; Genesis 31:19 ; Genesis 31:30 ; Hebrews 5:4 ; Hosea 3:...
Judges 17:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Of gods — That is, an house consecrated for the service of God in this manner. Teraphim — A sort of images so called. One of his sons — Because the Levites in that corrupt estate of the church, neg...

Judges 17:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Judges 17:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 17:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 17:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 17:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Judges 17:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 17:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 17:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 17:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 17:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 17:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 17:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 17:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 17:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 17:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 17:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 17:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 17:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 17:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 17:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 17:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 17:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 17:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 17:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 17:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes