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Judges 17 General Notes
Structure and formatting
This chapter begins a section explaining how Israel came to have a king.
Special concepts in this chapter
Idols and figures
According to the law of Moses, the Israelites were prohibited from making wooden figures or cast metal idols. This was a form of idolatry. This practice was common in Canaan and it shows the influence the Israelites allowed these people to have on them. (See: rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/lawofmoses)