CONTENTS The subject of this, and all that remains in the book of the Judges, puts on a different complection from what went before. The Reader will recollect the title it bears: the transactions here recorded; where in those days when there was no king in Israel; when every man did that which was... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe how, out of the same mouth, when there is no grace in the heart, come cursings or blessings. It seems very plain that money was the idol of both. Hence the son robbed the mother, and the mother cursed the son. Alas! what a dreadful state is the mind of both parent and offspring in by nature.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee. It is not strange, that both parent and child... [ Continue Reading ]
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. It is worthy our notice, that in the midst of this pretended piety, the woman allowed... [ Continue Reading ]
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. Here we read of many gods. And indeed, when the one true God be not thought enough, the corrupt heart will, if tempted thereto, multiply him to thousands. An Ephod, was a... [ Continue Reading ]
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. The sacred historian very properly accounts for the whole of this sad defection in Israel; in those days there was no king neither order, nor government. No ministry of God to tell men of their transg... [ Continue Reading ]
The rambling conduct of this young man, manifests his real principles. The Lord had made all suitable provision for his Levites, while they remained in his service. But when idolatry is set up in Israel, a temporizing Levite who falls in with the corruptions of the people, can find no bread in God's... [ Continue Reading ]
The sequel of this conference, too plainly marks the Levite ' s character. What an awful state must it be, in a Levite of God, to hire himself out in the service of idols; and what a pitiful maintenance it was after all. Bread just to keep him from starving, a coarse garment for every day, and a lit... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. Is it not astonishing that Micah should look for good from the hand of Cod, while was thus doing evil? But, alas! How doth sin harden the heart and deceive the soul. So much so (saith the prophet) that m... [ Continue Reading ]