And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that [were] her father's.
Ver. 19. Rachel had stolen the images.] She was somewhat tackt a with her father's superstition, though somewhat reclaimed. "Little children, keep yourselves from idols". 1Jn 5:21 Nothing so natural to us as image worship. Nothing so retained by us, when once entertained. After all that airing in the wilderness, Micah's mother smells of Egypt, and hath her molten and graven gods. Jdg 17:3 Rachel also had her idols a long time after this. Genesis 35:2 ; Gen 35:4 The devil is ειδωλοχαρης, saith Synesius; and so he would have us. Fence we therefore ourselves and ours against this abomination: the itch of it, once got, is hardly ever cured and clawed off.
a [Touched.]