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Genesis 20:1-18
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 20:1-18
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Matthew Henry on Genesis 20:1-8Genesis 20:1-8 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryCrooked policy will not prosper: it brings ourselves and others into danger. God gives Abimelech notice of his danger of sin, and his danger of death for his sin. Every wilful sinner is a dead man, but Abimelech pleads…Abraham's Denial of His Wife. (b. c. 1898.)Genesis 20:1-2 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleABRAHAM'S DENIAL OF HIS WIFE. (B. C. 1898.) Here is, 1. Abraham's removal from Mamre, where he had lived nearly twenty years, into the country of the Philistines: He sojourned in Gerar, Genesis 20:1. We are not told upo…The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 20:1Genesis 20:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryAnd Abraham journeyed (vide Genesis 12:9) from thence. Mamre (Genesis 18:1). In search of pasture, as on a previous occasion (Keil); or in consequence of the hostility of his neighbors (Calvin); or because he longed to…The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 20:1-18Genesis 20:1-18 · The Pulpit CommentaryAbraham in Gerar, or two royal sinners. I. THE SIN OF THE HEBREW PATRIARCH 1. An old sin repeated. "Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister." Twenty years before the same miserable equivocation had been circula…
commentaryMatthew Henry on Genesis 20:1-8Crooked policy will not prosper: it brings ourselves and others into danger. God gives Abimelech notice of his danger of sin, and his danger of death for his sin. Every wilful sinner is a dead man, but Abimelech pleads…Matthew HenrycommentaryAbraham's Denial of His Wife. (b. c. 1898.)ABRAHAM'S DENIAL OF HIS WIFE. (B. C. 1898.) Here is, 1. Abraham's removal from Mamre, where he had lived nearly twenty years, into the country of the Philistines: He sojourned in Gerar, Genesis 20:1. We are not told upo…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 20:1-18Abraham in Gerar, or two royal sinners. I. THE SIN OF THE HEBREW PATRIARCH 1. An old sin repeated. "Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister." Twenty years before the same miserable equivocation had been circula…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 20:1And Abraham journeyed (vide Genesis 12:9) from thence. Mamre (Genesis 18:1). In search of pasture, as on a previous occasion (Keil); or in consequence of the hostility of his neighbors (Calvin); or because he longed to…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 20:2Falsehood the fruit of unbelief. "Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister." Notice how imperfectly the obligation of truth recognized in Old Testament times. Not only among heathen, or those who knew little of…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 20:2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. As formerly he had done on descending into Egypt (Genesis 12:13). That Abraham should a second time have resorted to this ignoble expedient after the hazardous exper…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Genesis 20:3-7It appears by this that God revealed himself by dreams (which evidenced themselves to be divine and supernatural) not only to his servants the prophets, but even to those who were out of the pale of the church and coven…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 20:3But God—Elohim; whence the present chapter, with the exception of Genesis 20:18, is assigned to the Elohist (Tuch, De Wette, Bleek, Davidson), and the incident at Gerar explained as the original legend, of which the sto…Joseph S. Exell and contributors