Genesis 20:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So Abimelech got up early in the morning and sent for all his servants and gave them word of these things, and they were full of fear.

Additional Resources

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 20:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

    9Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.

    10And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?

    11And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

  • Gen 20:2-5
    4 verses
    79%

    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 in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

    4Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?

    5Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this.

  • 7So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.

  • Gen 26:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.

    10Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.

    11And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.

  • Gen 20:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

    18For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 20:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

    15And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

  • Gen 21:25-27
    3 verses
    74%

    25But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

    26But Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this thing; you never gave me word of it, and I had no knowledge of it till this day.

    27And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.

  • 22Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

  • 18Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

  • 27And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

  • 10And the men were in great fear, and they said to him, What is this you have done? For the men had knowledge of his flight from the Lord because he had not kept it from them.

  • 42Now the day after, the people went out into the fields; and news of it came to Abimelech.

  • 29Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?

  • 34So Abimelech and the people with him got up by night, in four bands, to make a surprise attack on Shechem.

  • 47And word was given to Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were there together.

  • 1Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,