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For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
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Verse 2. Vanity. Jason prevailed on many to imitate the Gentiles. 1 Maccabees 1:12.
teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
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