When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.
"His mother took two hundred pieces of silver ... gave them to the founder, who made a graven image and a molten image"  (Judges 17:4).  The question that rises here is "What did she do with the other nine hundred pieces of silver?"  Moore tells us that, "Some say that the two hundred pieces were the wages of the founder and that the rest of the silver was made into the image.  Lyra and others think the rest of the money was used for furnishing and adorning the shrine."[13]  The simple truth of the matter seems to be that, "The woman through avarice broke her vow and gave to God only a small part of the consecrated treasure."[14]