Genesis 20:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children. ”

• Genesis 20:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - Abraham in Gerar 2. אבימלך .2 'ǎbı̂ymelek , Abimelekh, “father of the king.” 7. נביא nābı̂y' “prophet,” he who speaks by God, of God, and to God, who declares to people not merely...

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• Genesis 20:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 Elohi...

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• Genesis 20:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. So Abraham prayed. In two respects the wonderful favor of God towards Abraham was apparent; firsts that, with outstretched hand, He avenged the injury done to him; and, secondly, that, th...

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• Genesis 20:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children . So Abraham prayed - This was the prime office of the נביא nabi; see Genesis 20:7 ....

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• Genesis 20:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  So Abraham prayed, &c.— See Genesis 20:7 and God accepted his prayer: and the punishment, which he had graciously inflicted on Abimelech to deter him from guilt, was removed. Hence we learn,...

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• Genesis 20:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Genesis 20:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Abraham at Gerar 1. Abraham leaves Mamre (Hebron) for Gerar, SW. of Philistia. It seems from Genesis 21:34 that he remained in that district for some years.

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• Genesis 20:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Abraham prayed... — As Abimelech had now made very liberal compensation, it became the duty of Abraham to intercede for him. The malady seems to have been one confined to Abimelech, as its object w...

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• Genesis 20:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Genesis 20:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Genesis 20:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So Abraham prayed unto God ,.... As the Lord had told Abimelech be would, Genesis 20:7 ; he might pray for the forgiveness of him and his wife, and might give thanks that Sarah had been restored to...

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• Genesis 20:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare [children]. Ver. 17. So Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech. ] Here was that...

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• Genesis 20:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ABRAHAM EXPOSED AND REPROVED Now we return to Abraham's history. He journeyed toward the south, which is typical of pleasant circumstances, but nearly always having danger in it. He dwelt between...

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• Genesis 20:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.   15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before...

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• Genesis 20:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Genesis 20:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Genesis 20:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 20:17 . God healed Abimelech.] This may explain in what sense he was on the point of dying ( Genesis 20:3 ), that he was to be considered dead, as regards progeny. His w...

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• Genesis 20:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Genesis 20:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech An efficacious interesting prayer Abraham’s prayer for the doomed cities was not granted, but his prayer for Abimelech was answered in full....

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• Genesis 20:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 20:1 And Abraham journeyed ( vide Genesis 12:9 ) from thence. Mamre ( Genesis 18:1 ). In search of pasture, as on a previous occasion (Keil); or in consequence of t...

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• Genesis 20:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Plague Removed from Abimelech

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• Genesis 20:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 20:7 Genesis 29:31 1 Samuel 5:11 1 Samuel 5:12 Ezra 6:10 Job 42:9 Job 42:10 Proverbs 15:8 Proverbs 15:29 Isaiah 45:11 Matthew 7:7 Matthew 21:22 Acts 3:24 Philippian...

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