Idolatry: Early Notice of, Amongst God's Professing People

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?”

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.” …

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.