Genesis 21:25

And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

Young's Literal Translation

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 saith, 'I — I do swear.'

26and Abimelech saith, 'I have not known who hath done this thing, and even thou didst not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard save to-day.'

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Cross References

Genesis 26:15and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.

Genesis 26:21and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name 'Hatred.'

Exodus 2:15And Pharaoh heareth of this thing, and seeketh to slay Moses, and Moses fleeth from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelleth in the land of Midian, and dwelleth by the well.

Proverbs 17:10Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.

Proverbs 27:5Better [is] open reproof than hidden love.

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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