Genesis 20:2
where he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
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Genesis 12:13Say you are my sister, so that everything may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared.’
Genesis 20:12Moreover, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father, though not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Genesis 26:7When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, ‘She is my sister’. He was afraid to say ‘my wife’. He thought that the men of the place would kill him for Rebekah, because she was beautiful to look at.
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 →