Genesis 31:19

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When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s idols.

Cross References

Genesis 24:38

Instead, go to my father’s home and to my relatives, and get my son a wife.’

Genesis 31:20

Jacob also tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was leaving.

Genesis 31:30

Now you have left for your father’s home because you were so homesick. But why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

If you find your gods, the one who has them will not be allowed to live. In the presence of our relatives, search as much as you want through what I have, and take what is yours.” (Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen the gods.)

Genesis 31:34

Rachel had taken the idols and had put them in her camel’s saddle-bag and was sitting on them. Laban rummaged through the whole tent but found nothing.

Genesis 31:35

Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, Father, but I can’t get up to greet you; I’m having my period.” So even though Laban had made a thorough search, he didn’t find the idols.

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his family and those who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods which you have, wash yourselves until you are ritually clean, and change your clothes.

Genesis 38:13

As soon as Tamar was told that her father-in-law was on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,

2 Samuel 13:23

Two years later Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal Hazor near Ephraim. He invited all the king’s sons.

2 Kings 23:24

Josiah also got rid of the mediums, psychics, family idols, other idols, and disgusting gods that could be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to confirm the words of the Teachings written in the book that the priest Hilkiah found in the Lord’s temple.

Ezekiel 21:21

The king of Babylon will stop where the roads branch off, where there is a fork in the road. Then he will look for omens. He will shake some arrows, ask his household gods for help, and examine animal livers.

Hosea 3:4

In the same way, the Israelites will wait a long time without kings or officials, without sacrifices or sacred stones, and without ephods  or family idols.

Joshua 24:2

Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: Long ago your ancestors, Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor, lived on the other side of the Euphrates River and served other gods.

Judges 18:31

So they set up for themselves the carved idol Micah had made. It stayed there the whole time the house of God was at Shiloh.

1 Samuel 15:23

The sin of black magic is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. Because you rejected the Lord’s word, he rejects you as king.”

1 Samuel 19:13

Then Michal took some idols, laid them in the bed, put a goat-hair blanket at its head, and covered the idols with a garment.

1 Samuel 25:2

Now, there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very rich man. He had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.