Genesis 21:25

And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

In Context

24And Abraham said: I will swear.

26And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:15Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:

Genesis 26:21And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.

Exodus 2:15And Pharao heard of this word, and sought to kill Moses: but he fled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a well. Madian... A city and country of Arabia, which took its name from Madian the son of Abraham, by Cetura, and was peopled by his posterity.

Proverbs 17:10A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.

Proverbs 27:5Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:23-33

Abimelech's Covenant with Abraham. ( b. c. 1892.) 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham… Read the whole commentary →

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