Genesis 21:25

But Abraham reproved Abimelech,—on account of the well of water, which the servants of Abimelech had seized.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

24And Abraham said, I, will swear.

26And Abimelech said, I know not, who hath done this thing,—nor hast even thou, ever told me, nor have even I, ever heard, save to-day.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:15And as for all the wells which the servants of his father digged, in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up, and filled them with dust.

Genesis 26:21And they digged another well, and they disputed over that also,—so he called the name thereof Sitnah.

Exodus 2:15So Pharaoh heard this thing, and sought to slay Moses,—and Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian and sat down by the well.

Proverbs 17:10A reproof sinketh more deeply into an intelligent man than a hundred stripes, into a dullard!

Proverbs 27:5Better is a rebuke that is open, than love carefully concealed.

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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