| Judges 3:19
| Then returning from Galgal, where the idols were, he said to the king: I have a secret message to thee, O king. And he commanded silence: and all being gone out that were about him,
| Idols. Hebrew pesilim. Some take these to be only heaps of stones. Protestants, "quarries." (Haydock) --- But the Septuagint, etc., represent them as "carved" idols. The same expression is used [in] Exodus 20:4., etc. The Moabites had probably placed idols here, to profane that sacred place, which was resorted to out of devotion by the Israelites, Osee 4:14., and Amos 4:5. Here also the prophets inform us that the ten tribes adored and consulted idols; resembling perhaps that of Michas, Judges 17:4. --- Silence to Aod, (Calmet) that none of the people might be able to divulge the secret. Hebrew, "be thou silent." (Menochius)
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