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Genesis 20:3

Then God went in unto Abimelech, in a dream of the night,—and said to him, Behold thee dead! because of the woman whom thou hast taken, seeing that, she, is a married woman.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife: My, sister, is she,—So Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

4Now, Abimelech, had not come near unto her,—so he said, O My Lord! a nation even a righteous one, wilt thou slay?

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Cross References

Genesis 28:12And he dreamed, and lo! a stairway, planted earthwards, with, its top, reaching towards the heavens,—and lo! messengers of God, ascending and descending thereon;

Genesis 37:5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brethren, and they went on yet more to hate him.

Genesis 40:5And they dreamed a dream they two, each man, his dream in one night, each man, according to the interpretation of his dream,—the butler and the baker who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the prison.

Genesis 41:1And it came to pass at the end of two years of days, that, Pharaoh, was dreaming, when lo! he was standing by the river (Nile);

Job 4:12But, unto me, something was brought by stealth,—and mine ear caught a whispering of the same:

Job 33:15In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon 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 →

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