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 Judges 17.5.
Gideon had made an ephod, from the gold and jewels of the Midianite
Amalekites, and had put it in his City in Ophrah, and it became a snare
to him and his house. 8.27.— The images that Rachel stole from her
father Laban, were teraphim. Genesis 31.19.— For the description of the
Ephod, as part of the Garments of Aaron see Exodus. 28.4–14— See also
Hosea 3.4. For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a
king, and without a Prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an
image and without an ephod, and without teraphim— Compare this chapter
with Deuteronomy 18.1–8. where directions are given concerning the
employment of Levites who come from their homes to the place which the
Lord should choose— That is where the Ark of the Covenant should
be—which in the time of Micah was in Shiloh— Micah’s worship was a
mixture of Idolatry, with the Religion of the Law— When he got the
Levite for his Priest, he said now I know that the
Lord will do me good.
Heard this Morning at the Presbyterian Church, Mr
Smith— His fourth Sermon upon Romans 8.7. the carnal mind enmity against
God— I had thought his morning discourse of last Sunday would have been
the last upon this text— I heard nothing this day, but what appeared to
me to be repetition of what he had said before. After dinner at St. John’s Church, Mr Hawley read
the Evening prayer for the fourth Sunday in lent—he read the whole
Service, and preached from Solomon’s Song 5.16— [“]This is my beloved,
and this is my friend.” Christ and his Church— It was a remnant of his
morning’s discourse— I employed all the leisure of the day in scriptural
readings and notices— Read two Chapters in Gleig’s History of the Bible,
and one Book of Milman’s History of the Jews— The latter appears to be
most philosophical— Milman notices the three several promises of God to
Abraham of the land of Canaan— The last solemnized by the remarkable
sacrifice and Covenant of Genesis 15 9–18.— The animals sacrificed were
a heifer, a she goat, a ram, a turtle dove and a young pigeon— These
were all the animals afterwards used to be sacrificed— Milman further
says that Teraphim were so called, as images first made by Terah, father
of Abraham.