1. Judges 17:4 (ESV)
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In what house would the images be found?

Judges 17:4 (ESV)

4 So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.

When the narrator states that the carved image and metal image found their home in Micah’s house, he quite likely does not mean that they were placed in the building where Micah personally lived, but in a different structure.

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