Genesis 20:3
And God comes to Abimelech in a dream of the night and says to him, “Behold, you [are] a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken—and she married to a husband.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4And Abimelech has not drawn near to her, and he says, “Lord, do you also slay a righteous nation?
Cross References
Genesis 28:12And he dreams, and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and behold, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it;
Genesis 37:5And Joseph dreams a dream, and declares to his brothers, and they add still more to hate him.
Genesis 40:5And they dream a dream both of them, each his dream in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker whom the king of Egypt has, who [are] prisoners in the round-house.
Genesis 41:1And it comes to pass, at the end of two years of days that Pharaoh is dreaming, and behold, he is standing by the River,
Job 4:12And a thing is secretly brought to me, || And my ear receives a little of it.
Job 33:15In a dream—a vision of night, || In the falling of deep sleep on men, || In slumberings on a bed.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 20:2-3
Abraham's Denial of His Wife. ( b. c. 1898.) 1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. Here is, 1. Abraham's removal from Mamre, where he had lived nearly twenty years, into the country of the Philistines: He sojourned in Gerar, v. 1 . We are not told upon what occasion he removed, whether terrified by the destruction of Sodom, or… Read the whole commentary →