Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream of 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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In Context
2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
4Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
Cross References
Genesis 28:12He dreamt and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 37:5Joseph dreamt a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
Genesis 40:5They both dreamt a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
Genesis 41:1At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamt, and behold, he stood by the river.
Job 4:12“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed,
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 →