Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 18:18
And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
18. these went into ] i.e. the spies; they knew their way about the house.
the graven image, the ephod ] The Hebr. has the graven image of the ephod; probably a scribal error; LXX the graven image and the ephod. The last word in the list is not in its usual place; clearly an addition.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 18. These went unto Micah’s house] The five men went in, while the six hundred armed men stood at the gate.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
These, to wit, the five mentioned Jdg 18:17.
What do ye? what do you mean to do? I hope you will not do so impious and injurious an action.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And these went into Micah’s house,…. Into that part of it where his gods were; not the six hundred men last mentioned, but the five men who knew the house, and the chapel where the things were:
and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image; and brought them away in their hands to their brethren at the gate, where the priest also was: and when he saw them,
then said the priest to them, what do ye? what do you mean by this? is this your kindness to me, to take away what are my care and charge, and on which my livelihood depends? and do you consider the wickedness, the sin of sacrilege you are guilty of, to take away these sacred things, these objects of religious devotion?
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(18) The carved image, the ephod.In the Hebrew this is pesel ha-ephodi.e., the pesel-ephod. Very possibly, however, the ephod may, as a rule, have hung on the carved image, so that to carry off the pesel was also to carry off the ephod, which ordinarily covered it.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
‘ And when these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the graven image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?” ’
Up to this point the priest had been innocent and when he saw on their arrival that they were carrying the religious objects from the house of God he was surprised. He asked them what they thought they were doing. Note the repetition of ‘the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image’ emphasising what their main purpose was and bringing out their sacrilege.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
It is impossible sufficiently to detest the character of this time-serving Levite. But indeed, how shall he be just to man that is unfaithful to God. And that all this base and perfidious conduct was not the effect of constraint, is evident from hence, that it is said he was glad.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Jdg 18:18 And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
Ver. 18. What do ye? ] And with it, perhaps, he was about to call to the neighbourhood, and to raise as great an uproar as Demetrius afterwards did for like cause at Ephesus. Act 19:23-29
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the ephod. Septuagint reads “and the ephod”. Compare Jdg 18:17. The Hebrew text has “the carved image of the ephod”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Reciprocal: 2Ki 23:24 – images Isa 41:7 – goldsmith Isa 46:2 – but Eze 21:21 – images