Judges 18:24 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 18:24

He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”

BSB

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ASV

And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee?

KJV

And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Ye have taken away my gods - As Micah was a worshipper of the true God, as we have seen, he cannot mean any kind of idols by the word אלהי elohai here used. He undoubtedly means those representations of Divine things, and symbols of the Divine presence such as the teraphim, ephod, etc.; for they are all evidently included under the word elohai, which we translate my gods.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

I made - So far was he besotted with superstition and idolatry, that he esteemed those gods, which were man's work. But he could not be so stupid, as to think these were indeed the great Jehovah that made heaven and earth; but only a lower sort of gods, by whom, as mediators, he offered up his worship to the true God, as divers of the Heathen did.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֡אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אֱלֹהַי֩	'e.lo.Hai	gods my	H430 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
עָשִׂ֨יתִי	'a.Si.ti	I made	H6213 →
לְקַחְתֶּ֧ם	le.kach.Tem	you have taken	H3947 →
וְֽאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
הַכֹּהֵ֛ן	ha.ko.Hen	the priest	H3548 →
וַתֵּלְכ֖וּ	va.te.le.Khu	and you have gone	H1980 →
וּמַה־	u.mah-	and what?	H4100 →
לִּ֣י	li	[belongs] to <the> me
ע֑וֹד	od	still	H5750 →
וּמַה־	u.mah-	and why?	H4100 →
זֶּ֛ה	zeh	this	H2088 →
תֹּאמְר֥וּ	to.me.Ru	are you saying	H559 →
אֵלַ֖י	'e.Lai	to me	H413 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
לָּֽךְ׃	Lakh	[is] to <the> you

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The walk8

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
Psalms 115:8
Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
leads to
- Habakkuk 2:18–19
  What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 135:18
  Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
- Jeremiah 10:8
  But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
Through
Revelation 17:2
The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
leads to
- Revelation 14:8
  Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
- Jeremiah 51:7
  Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
- Revelation 18:3
  All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance…
- Revelation 18:9
  Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
Through
Jeremiah 51:17
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
leads to
- Jeremiah 10:14
  Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

About Judges

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Judges

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Judges