Idolatry: Early Notice of, Amongst God's Professing People
Source: TTT
Genesis 31:19, 30
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols. / Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
Genesis 35:1–4
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” / So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments. / Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.