Genesis 21:25

And Avraham reproved Avimelech because of a be'er hamayim, which Avimelechʼs avadim had violently seized.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Avraham said, I will swear.

26And Avimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but today.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:15For all the wells which avdei aviv had dug in the days of Avraham aviv, the Pelishtim had stopped them up, and filled them with dirt.

Genesis 26:21And they dug another be'er, and feuded over that also; and he called the shem of it Sitnah (Enmity).

Exodus 2:15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moshe. But Moshe fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in Eretz Midyan; and he sat down by a well.

Proverbs 17:10Ge'arah (scolding) goeth deeper into a meiven 1 than a hundred blows into a kesil (fool). 1

Proverbs 27:5Open tovah tokhakhat (good, constructive reproof) 1 is better than secret ahavah. 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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