Genesis 21:26
Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
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- Gen 13:7 : 7 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land.
- 2 Kgs 5:20-24 : 20 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him. 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? 22 He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; please give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing. 23 Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they bore them before him. 24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.
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- Gen 20:2-1110 verses81%
2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
3But 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."
4Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
5Didn'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."
6God 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.
7Now 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."
8Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
9Then 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!"
10Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"
11Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
- Gen 26:9-113 verses79%
9Abimelech 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.'"
10Abimelech 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!"
11Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
- Gen 21:22-254 verses79%
22It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
23Now 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."
24Abraham said, "I will swear."
25Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
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27Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
- Gen 21:29-302 verses74%
29Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
30He 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."
- Gen 20:13-153 verses73%
13It 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."'"
14Abimelech took sheep and oxen, men-servants and women-servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife to him.
15Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."
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18Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
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26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.
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15Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.
- Gen 20:17-182 verses69%
17Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.
18For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
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32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?
- Gen 26:15-162 verses68%
15Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
16Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."
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12He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."