Genesis 31:19 Cross References

Genesis 31:19

19: At the time they left, Laban was some distance away, shearing his sheep. Rachel stole her father's household gods and took them with her.

So Jacob told everyone in his household, "Destroy your idols, wash yourselves, and put on clean clothing.

I know you feel you must go, and you long intensely for your childhood home, but why have you stolen my household gods?"

This illustrates that Israel will be a long time without a king or prince, and without sacrifices, temple, priests, or even idols!

Then she took an idol and put it in his bed, covered it with blankets, and put a cushion of goat's hair at its head.

But as for your household gods, let the person who has taken them die! If you find anything that belongs to you, I swear before all these relatives of ours, I will give it back without question." But Jacob didn't know that Rachel had taken them.

The king of Babylon now stands at the fork, uncertain whether to attack Jerusalem or Rabbah. He will call his magicians to use divination. They will cast lots by shaking arrows from the quiver. They will inspect the livers of their animal sacrifices.

Rachel had taken the household gods and had stuffed them into her camel saddle, and now she was sitting on them. So although Laban searched all the tents, he couldn't find them.

Joshua said to the people, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River, and they worshiped other gods.

So his mother took two hundred of the silver coins to a silversmith, who made them into an image and an idol. And these were placed in Micah's house.
Micah set up a shrine, and he made a sacred ephod and some household idols. Then he installed one of his sons as the priest.

The five men who had scouted out the land around Laish said to the others, "There is a shrine here with a sacred ephod, some household idols, a carved image, and a cast idol. It's obvious what we ought to do."
So the five men went over to Micah's house, where the young Levite lived, and greeted him kindly.
As the six hundred warriors from the tribe of Dan stood just outside the gate,
the five spies entered the shrine and took the carved image, the sacred ephod, the household idols, and the cast idol.
When the priest saw the men carrying all the sacred objects out of Micah's shrine, he said, "What are you doing?"

So Micah's carved image was worshiped by the tribe of Dan as long as the Tabernacle of God remained at Shiloh.

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