Genesis 31:30
It may be that you desired to go to your own, and that you longed for the house of your father. But why have you stolen my gods?”
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Genesis 31:19At that time, Laban had gone to shear the sheep, and so Rachel stole her father’s idols.
Numbers 10:30And he answered him, “I will not go with you, but I will return to my own land, in which I was born.”
Judges 6:31But he responded to them: “Could you be the avengers of Baal, so that you fight on his behalf? Whoever is his adversary, let him die before the light arrives tomorrow; if he is a god, let him vindicate himself against him who has overturned his altar.”
1 Samuel 5:2And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it into the temple of Dagon. And they stationed it beside Dagon.
Isaiah 37:19And they have cast their gods into the fire. For these were not gods, but the works of men’s hands, of wood and of stone. And they broke them into pieces.
Jeremiah 10:11“And so, you shall speak to them in this way: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth and from among those places which are under heaven.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:26-36
Laban's Pursuit after Jacob. ( b. c. 1739.) 25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. 26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword? 27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? 28… Read the whole commentary →