Genesis 31:30

Now you have gone away because you longed to return to your father's house. But why did you steal my gods?”

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In The King James Version

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

In Context

29It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night and said, 'Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.'

31Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid and thought that you would take your daughters from me by force I left secretly.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:19When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household gods.

Numbers 10:30But Hobab said to Moses, “I will not go with you. I will go to my own land and my own people.”

Judges 6:31Joash said to all who opposed him, “Will you plead the case for Baal? Will you save him? Whoever pleads the case for him, let him be put to death while it is still morning. If Baal is a god, let him defend himself when someone pulls his altar apart.”

1 Samuel 5:2The Philistines took the ark of God, brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it up beside Dagon.

Isaiah 37:19They have put their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, just wood and stone. So the Assyrians have destroyed them.

Jeremiah 10:11You will speak to them like this, “The gods that did not make the heavens and earth 1 will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.” 1

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 →

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