1 Samuel 19:13 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 19:13

Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

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ASV

And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes.

KJV

And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

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Commentary

4 voices

Gregory of Nyssa

ON THE INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PSALMS 2.16.272-73 (395)

Now Michal's name means "reign," because sin reigned over our nature up to that time. And at the very time he himself was born, he [the Lord in the figure of David] went out through a window. And the window indicates the return to the light again of the one who made himself known to those sitting in darkness and the shadow of death.And his image is seen on the bed. For the angel says to those seeking the Lord in the tomb, "Why do you seek the living with the dead? He is not here; he is risen."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And Michal took an image,.... Or "teraphim", as the word is; which, if the same with those that Rachel stole from her father, they seem to be of the same sort with the penates or household gods of the Heathens, which were privately kept by Michal; for, had David known of them, he would not have suffered them to have been in his house. Aben Ezra supposes they were images made in the form of men under such a constellation, a sort of talismans, to receive the heavenly influences, and which being consulted, foretold things to come; and R.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

An image - “Teraphim” (see the margin), an image, or bust in human form, and as large as life, of a kind of household god, to the worship of which the Israelites, and especially women, were much addicted. A pillow - It was probably a quilt or blanket of goats’ hair and of common use as a bed-covering. Whether Michal drew it over the head of the teraphim, as if for warmth, and so covered it, or whether she disposed it about the head so as to look like hair, is not clear.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתִּקַּ֨ח	va.ti.Kach	and she took	H3947 →
מִיכַ֜ל	mi.Khal	Michal	H4324 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַתְּרָפִ֗ים	ha.te.ra.Fim	the teraphim	H8655 →
וַתָּ֙שֶׂם֙	va.Ta.sem	and she put [it]	H7760 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
הַמִּטָּ֔ה	ha.mi.Tah	the bed	H4296 →
וְאֵת֙	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
כְּבִ֣יר	ke.Vir	<the> quilt of	H3523 →
הָֽעִזִּ֔ים	ha.'i.Zim	<the> goat hair<s>	H5795 →
שָׂ֖מָה	Sa.mah	she put	H7760 →
מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑יו	me.ra.'a.sho.Tav	[the] place of head its	H4763 →
וַתְּכַ֖ס	va.te.Khas	and she covered [it]	H3680 →
בַּבָּֽגֶד׃ ס	ba.Ba.ged	with the garment	H899 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 31:19
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
leads to
- Hosea 3:4
  For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 31:30
  Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 21:21
  For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the…
- Genesis 35:2
  So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
Through
Hosea 3:4
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
leads to
- Judges 17:5
  Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Judges 17:5
Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
leads to
- Judges 18:14
  Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image,…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Judges 8:27
  From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 31:19
  Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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Where the connections lead

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