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Genesis 20:3

Then God came to Abimelech through a dream in the night, and he said to him: “Lo, you shall die because of the woman that you have taken. For she has a husband.”

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In The King James Version

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

In Context

2And he said about his wife Sarah: “She is my sister.” Therefore, Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.

4In truth, Abimelech had not touched her, and so he said: “Lord, would you put to death a people, ignorant and just?

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Cross References

Genesis 28:12And he saw in his sleep: a ladder standing upon the earth, with its top touching heaven, also, the Angels of God ascending and descending by it,

Genesis 37:5Then it also happened that he recounted the vision of a dream to his brothers, for which reason a greater hatred began to be nurtured.

Genesis 40:5And they both saw a similar dream on one night, whose interpretations should be related to one another.

Genesis 41:1After two years, Pharaoh saw a dream. He thought himself to be standing above a river,

Job 4:12Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper.

Job 33:15Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in 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 →

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