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Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Genesis 20:1-18

EIGHTH SECTIONAbraham and Abimelech of Gerar. His and Sarah’s renewed exposure through his human, calculating prudence, as formerly in Egypt before Pharaoh. The Divine preservation. Abraham’s intercession for Abimelech Genesis 20:1-181And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south1 country [the mid-day], and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned [as a stranger even] in Gerar [lodging-place, pilgrim’s rest]. 2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister; and Abimelech... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 20:1-18

Abraham Again Denies His Wife Genesis 20:1-18 It is wonderful that Abraham should fall like this. He had walked with God for so many years, and experienced so many deliverances, that we should have expected him to have reached an unassailable position. But the best of men are men at the best; and God, who knows us better than we know ourselves, remembers that we are dust. He often steps in by His providence to intercept the full consequences of our wrongdoing, provided always that our heart... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 20:1-18

Once again we have to face Abraham's deflection from faith. We see him journeying south to Gerar. This was the center of a race of men who, having driven out the original possessors of the land, were becoming more and more warlike, and were afterward to be known as the Philistines. As Abraham approached, an old fear recurred and a former failure was repeated. These deflections from faith in the life of Abraham did not occur in the great fundamental things, nor in the main essentials of his... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 20:1-18

Abraham and Abimelech (Genesis 20:1-18 ). Genesis 20:1 ‘And Abraham journeyed from there towards the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and he sojourned in Gerar.’ He had been established many years by the Oaks of Mamre but now he moves on, although he would later return to the area. There Sarah died and was buried (Genesis 23:19), and he himself was buried there (Genesis 25:9). Isaac later returns there (Genesis 35:27) and Jacob was also buried there (Genesis 50:13). We do... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 20:1-18

Genesis 20. Abraham Passes off Sarah as his Sister at Gerar.— The first complete narrative from E. The writer uses Elohim, but P’ s characteristics are absent. Phraseology as well as the use of Elohim instead of Yahweh forbid us to assign it to J, who has also a variant of the story ( Genesis 12:1-Proverbs :); contrast Genesis 20:13 with Genesis 12:11-1 Chronicles :. Features which point to E are the phraseology, the representation of Abraham as a prophet ( Genesis 20:7) and his home as in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 20:9

What hast thou done unto us? How great a danger hast thou exposed us to! A great sin: even the heathens, who thought fornication harmless, judge adultery to be a very great and heinous crime. See Genesis 38:24; Leviticus 20:10; Ezekiel 16:38; Ezekiel 23:45,Ezekiel 23:47. Or, a great punishment, as this word is oft used; which seems better to answer to his offending Abraham now mentioned. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 20:8-16

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 20:8. Servants.] Court officers—his counsellors. (1 Kings 1:2; 1 Kings 10:5; 2 Kings 6:8.) Genesis 20:10. What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?] “What purpose hadst thou in view—what could have been thy motive?” Genesis 20:13. God caused me to wander.] One of the rare instances in which the plural verb is used with the name God, itself in the plural form. “If the verb be plural, it is only an instance of the literal meaning of Elohim, the Eternal Supernatural... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 20:9

DISCOURSE: 32ABRAHAM REPROVED FOR DENYING HIS WIFEGenesis 20:9. 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 tin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.WE admire the fidelity of Scripture history. There is not a saint, however eminent, but his faults are reported as faithfully as his virtues. And we are constrained to acknowledge, that the best of men, when... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 20:1-18

Chapter 20Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and he sojourned in Gerar ( Genesis 20:1 ).So Abraham was living in the area of Hebron, but now he is still sort of a nomadic person. If you go over to Israel today, you'll see the Bedouins living in their tents and they are nomadic people. They'll live for awhile in an area and then they'll get up, pack their tents and move and live in another area. And Abraham was living in tents. He never... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 20:1-18

Genesis 20:1 , Gerar, in the tribe of Simeon, then a royal residence. Abimelech was the common name of the kings that reigned there. Genesis 20:2. She is my sister. It is not said whether Sarah was daughter of Terah, Abraham’s father, by a second wife, or whether she was daughter of Haran, and sister of Lot. The Jews are divided here, for brevity in the text seems to occasion obscurity. Yet being called daughter-in-law of Terah, Genesis 11:31, she must, it would seem, have been the... read more