Genesis 20:3

And God came to Abimelech by night in sleep, and said, Behold, thou diest for the woman, whom thou hast taken, whereas she has lived with a husband.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

In Context

2And Abraham said concerning Sarah his wife, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my wife, lest at any time the men of the city should kill him for her sake. So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

4But Abimelech had not touched her, and he said, Lord, wilt thou destroy an ignorantly sinning and just nation?

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Cross References

Genesis 28:12and dreamed, and behold a ladder fixed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven, and the angels of God ascended and descended on it.

Genesis 37:5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and reported it to his brethren.

Genesis 40:5And they both had a dream in one night; and the vision of the dream of the chief cupbearer and chief baker, who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were in the prison, was this.

Genesis 41:1And it came to pass after two full years that Pharaoh had a dream. He thought he stood upon the bank of the river.

Job 4:12But if there had been any truth in thy words, 1 None of these evils would have befallen thee. 1 Shall not mine ear receive excellent revelations from him? 1

Job 33:15sending a dream, 1 Or in the meditation of the night 1 (As when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, 1 In slumberings on the bed): 1

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 →

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