Genesis 21:25
But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
Berean Standard Bible
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24And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
Cross References
Genesis 26:15So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
Genesis 26:21Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
Exodus 2:15When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.
Proverbs 17:10A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool.
Proverbs 27:5Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.
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 →