Genesis 31:30 Cross References

Genesis 31:30

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

"What do you mean, What do I want?" Micah replied. "You've taken away all my gods and my priest, and I have nothing left!"

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.

Say this to those who worship other gods: "Your so-called gods, who did not make the heavens and earth, will vanish from the earth."

And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all--only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.

The Philistines had abandoned their idols there, so David and his troops confiscated them.

Meanwhile, the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn sons, whom the LORD had killed the night before. The LORD had defeated the gods of Egypt that night with great acts of judgment!

He will set fire to the temples of Egypt's gods, burning all their idols and carrying away the people as captives. He will pick clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks fleas from his cloak. And he himself will leave unharmed.

They carried the Ark of God into the temple of Dagon and placed it beside the idol of Dagon.
But when the citizens of Ashdod went to see it the next morning, Dagon had fallen with his face to the ground in front of the Ark of the LORD! So they set the idol up again.
But the next morning the same thing happened--the idol had fallen face down before the Ark of the LORD again. This time his head and hands had broken off and were lying in the doorway. Only the trunk of his body was left intact.
That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor anyone who enters the temple of Dagon will step on its threshold.
Then the LORD began to afflict the people of Ashdod and the nearby villages with a plague of tumors.

The idols of Babylon, Bel and Nebo, are being hauled away on ox carts. But look! The beasts are staggering under the weight!
Both the idols and the ones carrying them are bowed down. The gods cannot protect the people, and the people cannot protect the gods. They go off into captivity together.

But Joash shouted to the mob, "Why are you defending Baal? Will you argue his case? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal truly is a god, let him defend himself and destroy the one who knocked down his altar!"

On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and kill all the firstborn sons and firstborn male animals in the land of Egypt. I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt, for I am the LORD!

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