Genesis 21:26

and 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.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

In Context

25And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants have violently taken away,

27And Abraham takes sheep and oxen, and gives to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;

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Cross References

Genesis 13:7and there is a strife between those feeding Abram’s livestock and those feeding Lot’s livestock; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite [are] then dwelling in the land.

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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