_AND ABRAHAM JOURNEYED FROM THENCE TOWARD THE SOUTH COUNTRY, AND DWELLED BETWEEN KADESH AND SHUR, AND SOJOURNED IN GERAR._ Abraham journeyed from thence. Whence? No place is mentioned in connection with the patriarch's name in the context immediately preceding. We must look back to Genesis 13:18; b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAHAM SAID OF SARAH HIS WIFE, SHE IS MY SISTER: AND ABIMELECH KING OF GERAR SENT, AND TOOK SARAH._ Abraham said of Sarah ... She is my sister - fear of the people among whom he was, tempted him to equivocate. His conduct was highly culpable. It was deceit, deliberate and premeditated-there w... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ God came to Abimelech in a dream by night. In early times a dream was often made the medium of communicating important truths; and this me... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT ABIMELECH HAD NOT COME NEAR HER: AND HE SAID, LORD, WILT THOU SLAY ALSO A RIGHTEOUS NATION?_ Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? - х_ 'ADONAAY_ (H136), Lord: see the note at Genesis 15:2.] The use of this term shows that true religion still lingered in Gerar, as it appears from the c... [ Continue Reading ]
_SAID 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._ Said he not unto me She is my sister? This as the first isit of Abraham to Gerar; and in his ignorance SAID HE NOT UNTO ME, SHE IS MY S... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND 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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW 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._ He is a prophet, [Hebrew, _ NAABIY'_ (H5030), a recipient of divine revelations] - one who... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said ... What hast thou done? In wha... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABIMELECH SAID UNTO ABRAHAM, WHAT SAWEST THOU, THAT THOU HAST DONE THIS THING?_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND 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._ Abraham said ... I thought, Surely the fear of God is not. From the horrible vices of Sodom, he seems to have taken up the impression that all other cities of Canaan were eq... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND 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._ Yet indeed she is my sister - (see the note at Genesis 11:31.) Terah must have been a polygamist, or a widower who had contracted a second marriage, if Sarah was sister to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND 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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND UNTO SARAH HE SAID, BEHOLD, I HAVE GIVEN THY BROTHER A THOUSAND PIECES OF SILVER: BEHOLD, HE IS TO THEE A COVERING OF THE EYES, UNTO ALL THAT ARE WITH THEE, AND WITH ALL OTHER: THUS SHE WAS REPROVED._ I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver. [The word _ SHEQEL_ (H8255) is often om... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO ABRAHAM PRAYED UNTO GOD: AND GOD HEALED ABIMELECH, AND HIS WIFE, AND HIS MAIDSERVANTS; AND THEY BARE CHILDREN._ So Abraham prayed unto God. Although the efficacy of prayer is not expressly mentioned until the Gospel age (Matthew 7:7; James 5:14-15), there are numerous remarkable instances of it... [ Continue Reading ]