Genesis 20:6
God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning ·deviating (from the standard goal)· against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
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Genesis 3:3but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’” + 3:3 Compare what the woman says with what God told the man in (Gen 2:16). + 3:3 Compare (Gen 2:7, 2:16) with (Gen 3:3-4, 3:23-24). What kind of death is God referring to as punishment?
Genesis 26:11Abimelech [My father king] enjoined all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
Genesis 35:5They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob [Supplanter].
Exodus 34:24For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Adonai, your God, three times in the year.
Psalms 51:4Against you, and you only, have I sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, 2 and done that which is evil in your sight; 1 that you may be proved right when you speak, 2 and justified when you judge. + 51:4. Quoted in Rom 3:4 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 20:4-8
3 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. 4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord , wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. 6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy… Read the whole commentary →