He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. God. Hebrew pesel umaseca. The word thing, would perhaps be as well substituted, as ( Bible.) all are not convinced that the woman was guilty of idolatry. Cajetan.—The same figure might be both graven and molten. The image was first carved, and then covered with plates of gold, and so forth in the more ancient times. Calmet.—There might be two figures made by Michas. Salien.—The Theraphim denote “images which foretel what is to happen.” Rabbins. Tirinus.—But this is not always the case. Bible.