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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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 →