Genesis 26:7
When the men there asked him about his wife, he told them, “She's my sister,” because he was afraid. He said to himself, “If I say she's my wife, the men here will kill me to get Rebekah, because she's so beautiful.”
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Genesis 12:13Tell them you're my sister so I'll be treated well because of you, and my life will be spared for your sake.”
Genesis 20:2During his time there, when Abraham told people about his wife Sarah, he said, “She's my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her to become one of his wives.
Genesis 20:12“Anyway, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father but not my mother, and I married her.
Proverbs 29:25Being afraid of people traps you, but if you trust in the Lord you're safe.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, you should love your wives in the same way as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.
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 →