Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, on account of the woman whom thou hast taken: for she is a man's wife.
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4But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou also slay a righteous nation?
Cross References
Genesis 28:12And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 37:5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
Genesis 40:5And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream; the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
Genesis 41:1And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.
Job 4:12Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a small sound of it.
Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when 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 →