Genesis 31:19
While Laban was away from home shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
In Context
20Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not informing him that he was going to run away.
Cross References
Genesis 31:30Clearly you wanted to leave and go back to your family home, but why did you have to steal my idols?”
Genesis 31:34Rachel had put the household idols in a camel's saddlebag and was sitting on it. Laban carefully searched the whole tent but couldn't find them.
Genesis 38:13Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
Judges 17:4After he'd returned the silver to his mother she gave two hundred shekels to a silversmith who made it into a carved idol, an image made with molten silver. They were kept in Micah's house.
Judges 18:14Then the five men who had gone to scout out the land of Laish told the other tribesmen, “Do you realize that here in these houses there's an ephod, household gods, and a carved idol, an image made with molten silver? So you know what you should do.”
1 Samuel 19:13Then she took a home idol and laid it in the bed, put a goat hair wig on its head, and covered it with bedclothes.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:18-25
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the… Read the whole commentary →