Genesis 12:17

But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his house with great wounds because of Sarai, the wife of Abram.

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In The King James Version

And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

In Context

16In truth, they treated Abram well because of her. And he had sheep and oxen and male donkeys, and men servants, and women servants, and female donkeys, and camels.

18And Pharaoh called Abram, and he said to him: “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife?

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Cross References

Genesis 20:18For the Lord had closed every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

1 Chronicles 21:22And David said to him: “Give this place of your threshing floor to me, so that I may build an altar to the Lord upon it. And you shall accept from me as much money as it is worth, so that the plague may cease from the people.”

Psalms 105:14And they coveted their desire in the desert, and they tempted God in a waterless place.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:15-20

Abram's Denial of His Wife. ( b. c. 1920.) 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. 17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's… Read the whole commentary →

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