Episode 23: The Deceiver Deceived - Laban, Leah, and the God Who Sees the Unloved

The Simply Christian Podcast · Oct 11, 2026 · 31m

Episode 23 – The Deceiver Deceived

Laban, Leah, and the God Who Sees the Unloved

Genesis 29 – 31

In this episode…. Jacob arrives in Haran, rolls a stone from awell, falls in love with Rachel, and serves seven years that feel like a few days.

And then, on his wedding morning, come four devastating words: “behold, it was Leah.”

The man who dressed as his older brother to steal a blessing ishanded the older sister in the dark – and Laban says it with a smile: we do not put the younger before the firstborn around here. The deceiver has been deceived.

But the heart of these chapters is not Jacob…