Genesis 20:9

World English Bible (2000)

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"

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  • Gen 12:18 : 18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
  • Gen 26:10 : 10 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 on us!"
  • Gen 34:7 : 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.
  • Gen 39:9 : 9 He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
  • Exod 32:21 : 21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"
  • Exod 32:35 : 35 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
  • Josh 7:25 : 25 Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
  • 1 Sam 26:18-19 : 18 He said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand? 19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'
  • 2 Sam 12:5 : 5 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die!
  • 2 Sam 12:10-11 : 10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' 11 "This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
  • 2 Sam 13:12 : 12 She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don't you do this folly.
  • Prov 28:10 : 10 Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
  • Rom 2:11 : 11 For there is no partiality with God.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  • Gen 38:24 : 24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."

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  • Gen 20:10-11
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    10 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

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

  • Gen 26:9-11
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    9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

    10 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 on us!"

    11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

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

    3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the 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."

    4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

    5 Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."

    6 God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.

    7 Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."

    8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

  • Gen 21:25-27
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    25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

    26 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

    27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

  • Gen 12:18
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    18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

  • Gen 20:13-15
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    13 It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"

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

    15 Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

  • Gen 21:22-23
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    22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

    23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

  • Gen 20:17-18
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    17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

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

  • Gen 21:29-30
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    29 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

    30 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

  • Judg 9:56
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    56 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;

  • Judg 9:48
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    48 Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who 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 to the people who were with him, "What you 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 his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

    27 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"

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

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
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    9 He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?