Genesis 20:9

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Then 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.

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  • Gen 12:18 : 18 Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?
  • Gen 26:10 : 10 Then 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.
  • Gen 34:7 : 7 Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.
  • Gen 39:9 : 9 So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?
  • Exod 32:21 : 21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?
  • Exod 32:35 : 35 And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
  • Josh 7:25 : 25 And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.
  • 1 Sam 26:18-19 : 18 And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me? 19 Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.
  • 2 Sam 12:5 : 5 And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this:
  • 2 Sam 12:10-11 : 10 So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. 11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.
  • 2 Sam 13:12 : 12 And answering him, she said, O my brother, do not put shame on me; it is not right for such a thing to be done in Israel: do not this evil thing.
  • Prov 28:10 : 10 Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.
  • Rom 2:11 : 11 For one man is not different from another before God.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
  • Gen 38:24 : 24 Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

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  • Gen 20:10-11
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    91%

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

    11 And 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 26:9-11
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    9 And 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.

    10 Then 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.

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

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

    3 But 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.

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

    5 Did 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.

    6 And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

    7 So 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.

    8 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.

  • Gen 21:25-27
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    25 But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

    26 But 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.

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

  • Gen 12:18
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    18 Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

  • Gen 20:13-15
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    13 And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

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

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

  • Gen 21:22-23
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    22 Now 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.

    23 Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

  • Gen 20:17-18
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    17 Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

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

  • Gen 21:29-30
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    29 Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?

    30 And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.

  • Judg 9:56
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    56 In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death;

  • Judg 9:48
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    48 Then Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, with all his people; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and, cutting down branches of trees, took them and put them on his back. And he said to the people who were with him, Be quick and do as you have seen me do.

  • Gen 26:26-27
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    26 And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.

    27 And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me you sent me away from you?

  • Judg 9:16
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    16 So now, if you have done truly and uprightly in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well to Jerubbaal and his house in reward for the work of his hands;

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
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    9 And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?