Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.
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4Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?
Cross References
Genesis 28:12And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.
Genesis 37:5Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.
Genesis 40:5And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.
Genesis 41:1Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;
Job 4:12A word was given to me secretly, and the low sound of it came to my ears.
Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;
Matthew Henry on Genesis 20:2-3
Abraham's Denial of His Wife. ( b. c. 1898.) 1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. Here is, 1. Abraham's removal from Mamre, where he had lived nearly twenty years, into the country of the Philistines: He sojourned in Gerar, v. 1 . We are not told upon what occasion he removed, whether terrified by the destruction of Sodom, or… Read the whole commentary →