Genesis 20:1
Abraham advanced from there into the southern land, and he lived between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 10:19And the borders of Canaan went, as one travels, from Sidon to Gerar, even to Gaza, until one enters Sodom and Gomorrah, and from Admah and Zeboiim, even to Lesa.
Genesis 13:1Therefore, Abram ascended from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, toward the southern region.
Genesis 16:1Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not conceived children. But, having an Egyptian handmaid named Hagar,
Genesis 16:14Because of this, she called that well: ‘The well of the one who lives and who sees me.’ The same is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 21:34And he was a settler in the land of the Palestinians for many days.
Genesis 26:1Then, when a famine arose over the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestinians, in Gerar.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 20:1
We are here returning to the story of Abraham; yet that part of it which is here recorded is not to his honour. The fairest marbles have their flaws, and, while there are spots in the sun, we must not expect any thing spotless under it. The scripture, it should be remarked, is impartial in relating the blemishes even of its most celebrated characters. We have here, I. Abraham's sin in denying his wife, and Abimelech's sin thereupon in taking her, ver. 1, 2 . II. God's discourse with Abimelech in a dream, upon this… Read the whole commentary →