And 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.
A graven image, and a molten image - the one carved from a block of wood or stone, to be plated over with silver; the other a figure formed of the solid metal east into a mould. It is observable, however, that only two hundred shekels were given to the founder; and probably the expense of making two such figures of silver, with their appurtenances (pedestals, bases, etc.), might easily cost, in those day, 200 shekels, which, at 2s.-4d. each, is about 23 British pounds-a sum not adequate to the formation of large statues (Taylor's 'Fragments').