Genesis 20:4
Abimelech hadn't touched Sarah, and he asked, “Lord, do you kill good people?
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But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
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Genesis 18:23Abraham came to him and asked: “Are you really going to wipe out the good people along with the wicked?
Genesis 20:6God told him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this in all innocence, so I prevented you from sinning against me. That's why I didn't let you touch her.
2 Samuel 4:11Even more so then, when evil men kill a good man in his own house, and in his own bed, shouldn't I demand you pay for his life with your own lives, and exterminate you!”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 20:4-8
3 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. 4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord , wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. 6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy… Read the whole commentary →