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Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife.”

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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.

In Context

2Abraham said concerning Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.

4Now Abimelech had not come near her and he said, “Lord, would you kill even a righteous nation?

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Cross References

Genesis 28:12He dreamed and saw a stairway set up on the earth. Its top reached to heaven and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Genesis 37:5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told his brothers about it. They hated him even more.

Genesis 40:5Both of them dreamed a dream—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt who were confined in the prison—each man had his own dream in the same night, and each dream had its own interpretation.

Genesis 41:1It came about at the end of two full years that Pharaoh had a dream. Behold, he stood by the Nile.

Job 4:12Now a certain matter was secretly brought to me, 1 and my ear received a whisper about it. 1

Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, 1 when deep sleep falls upon men, 1 in slumber on the bed— 1

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 →

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