Genesis 20:3

And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Oerara sent, and took her.

4Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said : Lord, wilt thou slay a nation, that is ignorant and justl

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Cross References

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

Genesis 37:5Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.

Genesis 40:5And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the interpretation agreeing to themselves:

Genesis 41:1After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,

Job 4:12Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper.

Job 33:15By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon 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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