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.
"Teraphim"  (Judges 17:5).  It is not certain what this was.  Dalglish thought that, "It was a figurine or image of some kind."[16]  In  Genesis 31:19, Rachel is said to have stolen the teraphim of her father, and from this, it is supposed that these small idols were associated with the pagan habit of adoring household gods.  Significantly, it is Rachel's posterity who in this chapter are involved in such pagan worship.