Genesis 21:25

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the wells of water, which the servants of Abimelech took away.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 said, I will swear.

26And Abimelech said to him, I know not who has done this thing to thee, neither didst thou tell it me, neither heard I it but only today.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:15And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.

Genesis 26:21And having departed thence he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity.

Exodus 2:15And Pharaoh heard this matter, and sought to slay Moses; and Moses departed from the presence of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and having come into the land of Midian, he sat on the well.

Proverbs 17:10A threat breaks down the heart of a wise man; 1 But a fool, though scourged, understands not. 1

Proverbs 27:5Open reproofs are better than secret love. 1

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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