Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Here is a most humiliating rebuke, and Abram deserved it. Had not God interfered, he might have been tempted to stay in Egypt and forget the promise (Psalms 105:13, Psalms 105:15). Often still does God rebuke His people and remind them through enemies that this world is not their rest.
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