Judges 17:4

Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

Cross-reference

Judges 18:17 Historical context

Judges 18:17 records the Danites stealing this very carved image and metal image from Micah's house — same narrative.

Isaiah 46:6 Parallel

Isaiah 46:6 depicts weighing silver and hiring a craftsman to make a god — exactly what happens when the silversmith makes the idol here.

Jeremiah 10:9 mentions silver beaten into plates by craftsmen to make idols — a direct parallel to the silversmith's work here.

Jeremiah 10:10 contrasts the true living God with idols like Micah's — man-made objects that are not divine.

Exodus 32:4 Parallel

Exodus 32:4 describes fashioning the gold into a calf idol — directly parallels the silversmith making Micah's metal image.

Isaiah 40:19 describes a craftsman casting an idol and overlaying it with gold and silver — very similar to the silversmith making Micah's metal image.

Exodus 32:3 Parallel

Exodus 32:3 has the people giving gold earrings to make an idol — parallel to Micah's mother giving silver to make a carved image.

Isaiah 46:7 Contrast

Isaiah 46:7 shows the idol being carried, set down, unable to answer — highlighting the impotence of the idol just made here.

Genesis 31:19 shows Rachel stealing household gods (teraphim) — similar to Micah's mother making her own domestic idol from silver.

Isaiah 30:22 Related theme

Isaiah 30:22 speaks of defiling carved idols overlaid with silver and gold — the same kind of idols Micah's mother had made.