Genesis 20:9

Genesis 20:9

7 Now therefore, restore the man’s wife; ^afor he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, ^bknow that you shall surely die, you ^cand all who are yours.”

8 So Abimelech rose early in the morning, called all his servants, and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were very much afraid.

9 And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I¹ offended you, ^athat you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me ^bthat ought not to be done.”

10 Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you have in view, that you have done this thing?”

11 And Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely ^athe fear of God is not in this place; and ^bthey will kill me on account of my wife.

12 But indeed ^ashe is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

13 And it came to pass, when ^aGod caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness that you should do for me: in every place, wherever we go, ^bsay of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”

14 Then Abimelech ^atook sheep, oxen, and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored Sarah his wife to him.

15 And Abimelech said, “See, ^amy land is before you; dwell where it pleases you.”

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Thou hast done deeds that ought not to be done - Equivocation and dissimulation, however they may be palliated, are very ill things, and by no means to be admitted in any case. He takes it as a very great injury to himself and his family, that Abraham had thus exposed them to sin, What have I offended thee? - If I had been thy worst enemy, thou couldst not have done me a worse turn, nor taken a more effectual course to be avenged on me. Note, We ought to reckon, that those do us the greatest dislikedness in the world, that any way tempt us or expose us to sin, though they may pretend friendship, and offer that which is grateful enough to the corrupt nature. He challenges him to assign any just cause he had to suspect them as a dangerous people for an honest man to live among.

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