Laban Pursues Jacob
22On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled. 23So he took his kinsmen with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him at Mount Gilead. 24But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
25Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, and when Laban overtook him, he and his brothers camped there as well. 26Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war! 27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps. 28But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.
29I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’ 30Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
It was three days..... this means Jacob lived some distance from Laban. Laban pursued Jacob for approximately three hundred miles in seven days, that’s about 43 miles per day! And if Jacob was gone for ten days it means he quickly traveled about thirty miles a day with his household and livestock!
God warns Laban....
Laban says....“carried off my daughters like captives of war!” Really? They were his wives!
“I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.”
A lie and Jacob wasn’t buying it!
So Laban threatens him, “I have power to do you great harm”...
“but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’”
Laban had no power, God had the power and He warned Laban!
“But why have you stolen my gods?”
Note; If your god can be stolen then your god is not a god!
Can your god be stolen?
Mine God can’t!
Blessings, David
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