Genesis 20:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended 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 lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
  • Gen 34:7 : 7 And the sons of Jacob came out of 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 [There is] none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing 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 so great a sin upon them?
  • Exod 32:35 : 35 And the LORD plagued 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 neighbour'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? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
  • 1 Sam 26:18-19 : 18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil [is] in mine hand? 19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, 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] the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this [thing] shall surely die:
  • 2 Sam 12:10-11 : 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11 Thus saith the LORD, 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 neighbour, 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 righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good [things] in possession.
  • Rom 2:11 : 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers 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 also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

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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 for her.

    10And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

    11And Abimelech charged all [his] 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.

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

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

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

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

    7Now therefore restore the man [his] 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.

    8¶ Therefore 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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    80%

    25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

    26And Abimelech said, I wot 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 both of them made a covenant.

  • Gen 12:18
    78%

    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 shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He [is] my brother.

    14¶ And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, 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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    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:

    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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    17So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare [children].

    18For the LORD 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, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

  • Judg 9:56
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    56Thus God rendered 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, and laid [it] on his shoulder, and 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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    26¶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

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

  • Judg 9:16
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    16Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, 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, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?