Genesis 20:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

But Abimelech had not come near her, and he said, Lord, will you slay also a righteous nation?

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  • Gen 18:23-25 : 23 And Abraham drew near and said, Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will you also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are within it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
  • 1 Chr 21:17 : 17 And David said to God, Was it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is I who have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on your people, that they should be afflicted.
  • Gen 19:24 : 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.
  • Gen 20:6 : 6 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also kept you from sinning against me: therefore I did not let you touch her.
  • Gen 20:17-18 : 17 So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants; and they bore children. 18 For the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
  • 2 Sam 4:11 : 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Shall I not therefore now require his blood from your hand, and remove you from the earth?

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  • Gen 20:2-3
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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 by night, and said to him, Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

  • Gen 20:5-15
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    5Did he not say to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself, said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands have I done this.

    6And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also kept you from sinning against me: therefore I did not let you touch her.

    7Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live: and if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that belong to you.

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

    9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? and what wrong have I done to you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that should not be done.

    10And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see, that you have done this thing?

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

    12And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

    13And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is your kindness which you shall show unto me; at every place where we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

    14And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and male servants, and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.

    15And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you: live where it pleases you.

  • Gen 26:9-11
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    81%

    9And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, certainly she is your wife: and how did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

    10And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? one of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.

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

  • Gen 20:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants; and they bore children.

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

  • Gen 21:25-26
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    76%

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

    26And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; neither did you tell me, nor did I hear of it until today.

  • Gen 18:23
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    23And Abraham drew near and said, Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

  • Gen 21:22
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    22And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

  • Gen 18:25
    72%

    25Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

  • Gen 12:18
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    18And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

  • Gen 21:29
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    29And Abimelech said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?

  • Judg 9:56
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    56Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father, in killing his seventy brothers.