Genesis 12:17
But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 20:18For the Lord had fast closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
1 Chronicles 21:22Then said David to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an altar unto the Lord: for the full price shalt thou give it unto me, so that the plague may be stayed from the people.”
Psalms 105:14He suffered no man to oppress them; yea, he reproved kings for their sake;
Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:15-20
Abram's Denial of His Wife. ( b. c. 1920.) 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. 17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's… Read the whole commentary →