Genesis 20:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

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  • Gen 12:18 : 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
  • Gen 26:10 : 10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? One of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
  • Gen 34:7 : 7 And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
  • Gen 39:9 : 9 he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
  • Exod 32:21 : 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them?
  • Exod 32:35 : 35 And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
  • Josh 7:25 : 25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? Jehovah shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.
  • 1 Sam 26:18-19 : 18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand? 19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be Jehovah that hath stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before Jehovah: for they have driven me out this day that I should not cleave unto the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.
  • 2 Sam 12:5 : 5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As Jehovah liveth, the man that hath done this is worthy to die:
  • 2 Sam 12:10-11 : 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
  • 2 Sam 13:12 : 12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
  • Prov 28:10 : 10 Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good.
  • Rom 2:11 : 11 for there is no respect of persons with God.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 [ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
  • Gen 38:24 : 24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 20:10-11
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    91%

    10And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

    11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

  • Gen 26:9-11
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    9And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her.

    10And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? One of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

    11And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

  • Gen 20:2-8
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    2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

    3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

    4Now Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation?

    5Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.

    6And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou has done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

    7Now therefore restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

    8And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

  • Gen 21:25-27
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    25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

    26And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.

    27And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant.

  • Gen 12:18
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    18And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

  • Gen 20:13-15
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    13and it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me: at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

    14And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

    15And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

  • Gen 21:22-23
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    22And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

    23now 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.

  • Gen 20:17-18
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    17And Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children.

    18For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 21:29-30
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    29And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

    30And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

  • Judg 9:56
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    56Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;

  • Judg 9:48
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    48And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

  • Gen 26:26-27
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    26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.

    27And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

  • Judg 9:16
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    16Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
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    9And he said, Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?