Mother...Son

Judges 17:3-5 – And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.” So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah. And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.

Exodus 20:4,23 – “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth…You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

Isaiah 44:13 – The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

Zechariah 10:2 – For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.

Application:

• ·         Because God has no visible form, any idol intended to resemble him would be a sinful misrepresentation of Him.
• ·         The contrast between the one true God in heaven, who does whatever pleases Him, and idols of silver or god, who can do nothing at all, is striking indeed.
• ·         Man was made in the image of God, but an idol is made in the image of man.
• ·         Idols were household gods. They were used for divination during the period of the judges.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV