Genesis 21:25

And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water which Abimelech servauntes had taken awaye.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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

24Then sayde Abraham: I wyll swere.

26And Abimelech answered I wyst not who dyd it: Also thou toldest me not nether herde I of it but this daye.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:15In so moch yt they stopped and fylled vp with erth all the welles which his fathers servauntes dygged in his father Abrahams tyme.

Genesis 26:21Than dygged they another well and they stroue for yt also. Therfore called he it Sitena.

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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