Genesis 31:24

God warns Laban in a dream not to speak to Jacob either good or bad. The Lord restrains Laban from harming Jacob.

Cross-references · 23

• Gen 24:50Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
• Gen 31:29I 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.’
• Gen 20:3One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
• Gen 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
• Num 24:13that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I will speak whatever the LORD says.
• 2 Sam 13:22And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for disgracing his sister Tamar.
• Matt 27:19While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”
• Gen 41:1After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
• Matt 1:20But after he had pondered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to embrace Mary as your wife, for the One conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Kgs 3:5One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
• Gen 31:10When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
• Num 22:26And the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or left.
• Hos 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
• Job 33:15–17In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
• Gen 28:5So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
• Deut 26:5and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
• Ps 105:14–15He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:
• Isa 37:29Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
• Gen 40:5both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
• Num 22:20That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”
• Job 33:25then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.
• Num 12:6He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
• Matt 2:12And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.

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