Genesis 21:25
But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.
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24And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.
Cross References
Genesis 26:15Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.
Genesis 26:21Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.
Exodus 2:15Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.
Proverbs 17:10A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
Proverbs 27:5Better is open protest than love kept secret.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:23-33
Abimelech's Covenant with Abraham. ( b. c. 1892.) 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham… Read the whole commentary →