Genesis 21:25

Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about one of Abraham’s wells that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

Translation for Translators

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

24So Abraham promised to do that.

26But Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done that. You did not tell me previously, and I did not hear about it until today.”

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Cross References

Genesis 26:15So all the wells that the servants of his father Abraham had dug during the time when he was alive, the people filled up with dirt.

Genesis 26:21Then Isaac’s servants dug another well, but they quarreled about who owned that one also. So Isaac named it Sitnah, which means ‘opposition’.

Exodus 2:15And that was correct. The king heard about what he/I had done to that Egyptian. So he ordered his soldiers to execute/kill Moses/me. But he/I fled from the king and left Egypt. He/I traveled east to the Midian region and started to live there.

Proverbs 17:10Rebuking people who have good sense will accomplish more for them than hitting them 100 times with a stick.

Proverbs 27:5It is better to correct someone openly than to show that you l don’t love that person by not correcting him.

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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