EXCURSUS II — ON Judges 17:5 (TERAPHIM)

The Hebrew word Teraphim is always simply transliterated as in this versio…

And the man Micah has an house of gods
Having two images in it, besides teraphim, which were a sort of idols; and th…

What is related in this, and the rest of the chapters to the end of this book, was done soon after the death of Joshua: see Judges 20:28. To show h…