25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.



Ver. 25. By this craft we have our wealth] And wealth is the wordling’s god, which he prizeth, as Micah did his idol; and can as hardly forego it. What a cursing made Micah’s mother in the loss of her eleven hundred shekels of silver, Jdg_17:2, and what a hubbub raised Micah all the country over, when the Danites had despoiled him of his dunghill deity, Jdg_18:22-27. So did the silversmiths here, and they thought they had reason to be thus mad when their trade was taken away.