Genesis 31:30
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
31“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
Cross References
Genesis 31:19Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Numbers 10:30“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
Judges 6:31But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”
1 Samuel 5:2carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.
Isaiah 37:19They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
Jeremiah 10:11Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
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 →