Genesis 26:11

Abimelech issued orders to all the people, warning them, “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be executed.”

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In The King James Version

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

In Context

10“Why would you do this to us?” Abimelech asked. “One of the men here might have slept with your wife, and you would have made us all guilty!”

12Isaac sowed grain that year, and the Lord blessed him with a harvest that was a hundred times what he planted.

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Cross References

Psalms 105:15“Don't touch my chosen people; don't harm my prophets!”

Zechariah 2:8For this is what the Lord Almighty said: Afterwards the glorious Lord sent me against the nations that plundered you—for those who touch you touch the apple of his eye.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:7-12

Isaac's Denial of His Wife. ( b. c. 1840.) 6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: 7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon. 8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. 9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said,… Read the whole commentary →

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