Genesis 35:2

And! think it more than probable also, that the LORD in tender mercy, had visited the Patriarch with afflictions to call his vows to remembrance. Revelation 3:19. It should seem by this address of Jacob to his household that he considered his visitations in this light: Isaiah 1:16. How sweetly the apostle converts such puttings away, into a gospel sense! 1 Peter 3:21. But, Reader! is it not strange that Jacob, the highly favoured, highly blessed Jacob, should suffer strange gods in his family? Alas! what is man in his greatest attainments! Precious Redeemer, how increasingly dear becomes the recollection of thy salvation at every renewed instance we feel in ourselves, or are called upon to behold in others, of human corruption!