Genesis 20:1
Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cedes and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Oerara sent, and took her.
Cross References
Genesis 10:19And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.
Genesis 13:1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
Genesis 16:1Now Sarai the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children; having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,
Genesis 16:14Therefore she called that well, The well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Bared.
Genesis 21:34And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.
Genesis 26:1And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestines to Gerara.
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 →