THEOSISGenesis 31:30Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?
וְעַתָּה֙ הָלֹ֣ךְ הָלַ֔כְתָּ כִּֽי־נִכְסֹ֥ף נִכְסַ֖פְתָּה לְבֵ֣ית אָבִ֑יךָ לָ֥מָּה גָנַ֖בְתָּ אֶת־אֱלֹהָֽי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 31:19At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.
- Judg 18:24And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made me, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth thee?
- Jer 10:11Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven.
- 2 Sam 5:21And they left there their idols: which David and his men took away.
- Jer 43:12And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
- Num 33:4Who were burying their firstborn, whom the Lord had slain (upon their gods also he had executed vengeance,)
- Isa 46:1Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.
- Isa 46:2They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.