Genesis 20:1, Abraham sojourns at Gerar; Genesis 20:2, Denies his wife, who is taken by Abimelech; Genesis 20:3, Abimelech is reproved for her in a dream; Genesis 20:9, He rebukes Abraham; Genesis 20:14, Restores Sarah; Genesis 20:16, and reproves her; Genesis 20:17, Abimelech and his family are healed at Abraham’s prayer.
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Genesis 20 — OverviewGenesis 20 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe are here returning to the story of Abraham; yet that part of it
which is here recorded is not to his honour. The fairest marbles have
their flaws, and, while there are spots in the sun, we must not expect…Genesis 20 — OverviewGenesis 20 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter relates the removal of Abraham to Gerar, Ge 20:1; the king of Gerar's taking to him Sarah, whom Abraham had called his sister, Ge 20:2; who is rebuked of God for it in a dream, Ge 20:3; for which he makes…Genesis 20:1-2Genesis 20:1-2 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere 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…Genesis 20:1Genesis 20:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryAnd Abraham journeyed (vide Genesis 12:9) from thence. Mamre (Genesis 18:1). In search of pasture, as on a previous occasion (Keil); or in consequence of the hostility of his neighbors (Calvin); or because he longed to…Genesis 20:1-18Genesis 20:1-18 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITIONGenesis 20:1-18Genesis 20:1-18 · The Pulpit CommentaryAbraham in Gerar, or two royal sinners.
I. THE SIN OF THE HEBREW PATRIARCH
1. An old sin repeated. "Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister." Twenty years before the same miserable equivocation had been…