Judges 3:26 - "Ehud escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the sculptored ‘stones, and escaped to Seirah.’ "

Sculpture was a very early form of art. When prehistoric man shaped sticks, stones, or clay into images that represented ideas, he was creating sculpture. The oldest known work of this kind dates from the end of the Old Stone Age, perhaps 20,000 years ago. Although wood may have been used, the examples that have survived through the centuries are in stone, ivory, bone, or clay.

The early sculptors combined remarkable visual observations with purposes of magic and religion. They probably believed that by carving animal images on a sto…