Genesis 31:30

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I can understand why you were eager to return to your father, but why did you have to steal my idols?

Cross References

Genesis 31:19

Before Rachel left, she stole the household idols while Laban was out shearing his sheep.

Genesis 31:31

Jacob answered, “I left secretly because I was afraid you would take your daughters from me by force.

Genesis 35:2

Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was travelling with him: Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes.

2 Samuel 5:21

David and his troops also carried away the idols that the Philistines had left behind.

Exodus 12:12

That same night I will pass through Egypt and kill the firstborn son in every family and the firstborn male of all animals. I am the LORD, and I will punish the gods of Egypt.

Isaiah 37:19

They destroyed the idols of wood and stone that the people of those nations had made and worshipped.

Jeremiah 10:11

You told me to say that idols did not create the heavens and the earth, and that you, the LORD, will destroy every idol.

Jeremiah 43:12

I will let him set Egypt's temples on fire, and he will either burn or carry off their idols. He will destroy the sacred monuments at the temple of the sun-god. Then Nebuchadnezzar will pick the land clean, just like a shepherd picking the lice off his clothes. And he will return safely home.

Ezekiel 21:21

When the Babylonian king stands at that signpost, he will decide which way to go by shaking his arrows, by asking his idols, and by carefully looking at the liver of a sacrificed animal.

Numbers 10:30

“No, I won't go,” Hobab answered. “I'm returning home to be with my own people.”

Joshua 24:2

Then Joshua told everyone to listen to this message from the LORD, the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the River Euphrates, and they worshipped other gods. This continued until the time of your ancestor Terah and his two sons, Abraham and Nahor.

Judges 18:24

Micah answered, “You know what's wrong. You stole the gods I made, and you took my priest. I don't have anything left.”

Judges 6:31

The crowd pushed closer and closer, but Joash replied, “Are you trying to take revenge for Baal? Are you trying to rescue Baal? If you are, you will be the ones who are put to death, and it will happen before another day dawns. If Baal really is a god, let him take his own revenge on someone who tears down his altar.”