"Now Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. And Laban searched all about the tent but did not find them." v.34
Read chapter 31.
I always wondered why Rachel took and wanted these idols? Rachel surely knows about God and hopefully from her husband Jacob and being a descendant of Abraham's family. Did she choose to follow that way and believe in the Almighty God? We see something similar with David and Michal when David escapes Michal and puts an idol in the bed to fool into thinking David was sleeping. Why did Michal have the idol in the first place? In this culture rights to one's genealogy and inheritance was huge and if one couldn't prove their genealogy they'd be basically cut out. Perhaps Rachel doesn't worship these idols but for her part in her fathers inheritance she holds on to them. Yet this she doesn't even tell her husband. What are some idols you're holding on to from your past that you're trying to hide?
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