Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
yet indeed she is my sister—(See on Genesis 11:31). What a poor defense Abraham made. The statement absolved him from the charge of direct and absolute falsehood, but he had told a moral untruth because there was an intention to deceive (compare Genesis 12:11-13). "Honesty is always the best policy." Abraham's life would have been as well protected without the fraud as with it: and what shame to himself, what distrust to God, what dishonor to religion might have been prevented! "Let us speak truth every man to his neighbor" [Zechariah 8:16; Ephesians 4:25].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 20:12:
2 Samuel 13:2
Jeremiah 38:26
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