Judges 17:4
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Judges 17:4 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Judges 17:4 is a verse from the book of Judges in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the found..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Judges 17:4 — KJV
“Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.”
— Judges 17:4 (KJV)
Judges 17:4 in Context — About the Book of Judges
Judges chronicles Israel's darkest cycle: sin, oppression, crying out, and rescue — repeated for generations. God raises unlikely deliverers like Gideon, Deborah, and Samson, proving He responds to honest cries for help even when His people keep failing. Grace shines against a dark backdrop.
Cross-References for Judges 17:4
“When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. wedge: Heb. tongue”
Shares key themes with Judges 17:4: took, two, hundred
“And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.”
Shares key themes with Judges 17:4: mother, took, hundred
“And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.”
Shares key themes with Judges 17:4: took, hundred, graven
“And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.”
Shares key themes with Judges 17:4: made, graven, image
“And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.”
Shares key themes with Judges 17:4: money, hundred, shekels
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