Judges 17:3
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Cross-references
Exodus 20:4 explicitly forbids making carved images — the very act described here, showing a direct violation of the commandment.
Exodus 20:23 forbids making gods of silver — exactly what the mother does with the dedicated silver for a metal image.
Leviticus 19:4 forbids making gods of cast metal — the metal image made here from the dedicated silver.
Deuteronomy 12:3 commands destroying carved images — the opposite of making one here, highlighting the disobedience.
Psalm 115:4-8 describes idols as silver and gold, work of hands — the same kind of idol made here, and warns makers become like them.
Isaiah 40:18-25 contrasts God's greatness with making idols from silver and gold — the very practice seen here.
Isaiah 44:9-20 mocks the absurdity of making idols from materials — the same folly as dedicating silver for a carved image.
Jeremiah 10:3-5 describes idols decorated with silver and gold — the same material used here for the carved image.
Habakkuk 2:18 condemns the idol maker as a teacher of lies — contrasting the dedication of silver to make a carved image here.
Habakkuk 2:19 pronounces woe on those overlaying idols with silver — a direct critique of the idol-making described here.
Exodus 32:3 has the people bringing gold to Aaron for the golden calf — the same pattern of collecting precious metal to fashion an idol.
Exodus 32:4 describes Aaron fashioning the gold into a calf — directly parallel to making a carved image and metal image here.
Isaiah 30:22 promises defiling idols overlaid with silver — contrasting the making of such idols here with their future rejection.
Isaiah 46:6 describes weighing silver, hiring a goldsmith to make a god — the very process of idol fabrication seen here with the silver dedicated.
Isaiah 66:3 equates offering incense to an idol with abominations — mirroring the idolatry of dedicating silver to make a carved image.
Jeremiah 10:8 calls idol makers stupid and foolish — the very act of making a carved image here is condemned as foolish.