Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. Then Abimelech King of Gerar sent and tooke Sarah.
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Genesis 12:13Say, I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my life may be preserued by thee.
Genesis 20:12Yet in very deede she is my sister: for she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she is my wife.
Genesis 26:7And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he sayd, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife, least, sayde he, the men of the place shoulde kill me, because of Rebekah: for she was beautifull to the eye.
2 Chronicles 19:2And Iehu the sonne of Hanani the Seer went out to meete him, and said to King Iehoshaphat, Wouldest thou helpe the wicked, and loue them that hate the Lord? therefore for this thing the wrath of the Lord is vpon thee.
2 Chronicles 32:31But because of the ambassadours of the princes of Babel, which sent vnto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the lande, God left him to trie him, and to knowe all that was in his heart.
Proverbs 24:16For a iust man falleth seuen times, and riseth againe: but the wicked fall into mischiefe.
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 →