Genesis 20:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

dream. 20 recorded in Scripture (see App-10). Genesis 20:3; Genesis 28:12; Genesis 31:10; Genesis 31:24; Genesis 37:5; Genesis 37:9; Genesis 40:5; Genesis 40:6; Genesis 41:1; Genesis 41:5; Genesis 41:5.Judges 7:13; 1 Kings 3:5.Daniel 2:3; Daniel 4:5; Daniel 7:1.Matthew 1:20; Matthew 2:12; Matthew 2:13; Matthew 2:19; Matthew 27:19.

man... for. Figure of speech Aposiopesis, or "sudden silence". We must supply "If thou dost not restore her"; or "I will slay thee". See verses: Genesis 20:4 and Genesis 20:7.

Genesis 20:3

3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man'sa wife.