Genesis 21:25

Now as often as Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well of water which Abimelech’s servants had seized,

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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

24Abraham said, “I swear it.”

26Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing, neither have you told me nor have I heard of it until today.”

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Cross References

Genesis 26:15But Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father – for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham and he gave them the same names as his father had given them.

Genesis 26:21And when they dug another well, they quarreled over that also. So he called the name of it Sitnah.

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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