Genesis 26:11

And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

In Context

10Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.

12Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.

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Cross References

Psalms 105:15Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

Zechariah 2:8\2:4\Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:7-12

Isaac's Denial of His Wife. ( b. c. 1840.) 6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: 7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon. 8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. 9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said,… Read the whole commentary →

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