Genesis 21:25

And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have violently taken away,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

In Context

24And Abraham says, “I swear.”

26and Abimelech says, “I have not known who has done this thing, and even you did not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard except today.”

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Cross References

Genesis 26:15and all the wells which his father’s servants dug in the days of his father Abraham, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.

Genesis 26:21and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calls its name “Hatred.”

Exodus 2:15And Pharaoh hears of this thing, and seeks to slay Moses, and Moses flees from the face of Pharaoh, and dwells in the land of Midian, and dwells by the well.

Proverbs 17:10Rebuke comes down on the intelligent || More than one hundred stripes on a fool.

Proverbs 27:5Better [is] open reproof than hidden love.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:23-33

Abimelech's Covenant with Abraham. ( b. c. 1892.) 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham… Read the whole commentary →

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