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Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats` [hair] at the head of it, and covered it with the clothes.
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An Idol in the House
Commentators explain that the 'teraphim' was a household idol, likely a life-sized human figure. Its presence in David's home, probably kept secretly by his wife Michal, reveals the persistent struggle with idolatry among the Israelites, even within the family of the future king. Scholars like Gill and Ellicott note this was a form of personal, domestic worship forbidden by God's law.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
An image - “Teraphim” was an image, or a bust in human form and as large as life, of a kind of household god to whose worship the Israelites…
19th Century
Anglican
An image. —An image in Hebrew is teraphim—a plural form, but used as a singular. We have no instance of the singular. The…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Michal took an image Or "teraphim", as the word is; which, if the same with those that Rachel stole from her father, they …
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Michal's stratagem to gain time until David got to a distance was allowable, but her falsehood did not even have the plea of necessity to excuse it…
