Genesis 21:25

Abraham also complained to Abimelech concerning a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized from him.

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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.”

26Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing. You did not tell me before now; I have not heard of it until today.”

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Cross References

Genesis 26:15Now all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up by filling them with earth.

Genesis 26:21Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that, too, so he gave it the name of “Sitnah.”

Exodus 2:15Now when Pharaoh heard about it, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. There he sat down by a well.

Proverbs 17:10A rebuke goes deeper into a person who has understanding 1 than a hundred blows go into a fool. 1

Proverbs 27:5Better is an open rebuke 1 than hidden love. 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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