Verse 5
5. House of gods Or, a house of God, a sanctuary after the model of that at Shiloh. He would have a tabernacle of his own.
An ephod Probably after the fashion of Gideon’s. See on Judges 8:27.
Teraphim Idolatrous images among the Syrians, but in Israel connected rather with corrupt notions of religion than with open idolatry. It does not appear that they were ever worshipped. But see on Genesis 31:19, and Joshua 24:14.
Consecrated Literally, filled the hand, in allusion to the sacred and solemn duties which filled the hands required all the care of those who occupied the priest’s office.
One of his sons This fact affords further evidence of the looseness of that age, and shows how completely some of the most solemn enactments of the law had become a dead letter. But Micah did not feel fully satisfied with this priest of his own household, and hence his subsequent consecration of the wandering Levite.
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