Genesis 20:4

LORD*. Jehovah. One of the 134 emendations of the Sopherim. See App-32.

also, i.e. as well as Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 19.

nation. Abimelech evidently expected God to slay the whole nation.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 20:4

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also (d) a righteous nation? (d) The infidels confessed that God would not pu...
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 a...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. But Abimelech had not come near her. Though Abraham had deprived himself of his wife, the Lord interposed in time to preserve her uninjure...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 19 CALL OF ABRAM Genesis 20:1-4 . Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy f...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lord, wilt thou slay also, &c.— Abimelech here deprecates the Divine wrath, and enters into a justification of his conduct; declaring that both...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Wilt thou slay also a righteous nation ] Abimelech's people, at all events, had not been guilty of any sin.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A righteous nation. — Knobel has pointed out that there is an allusion here to the fate of Sodom. Though the malady was confined to Abimelech and h...
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...
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 dr...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But Abimelech had not come near her ,.... Sarah had been put into an apartment in his palace, and not yet admitted into his company, not at least to...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? Ver. 4. But Abimelech had not come near her. ] Bei...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wilt thou also slay a righteous nation? He probably referred to the late destruction of Sodom and the cities of the plain, which, no doubt, must ha...
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 ne...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Abimelech had not come near her, i.e. had not yet lain with her. A modest expression, like that of knowing a woman, Genesis 4:1 , or going i...
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 Kad...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 20:1 . Kadesh; Shur; Gerar.] All lying near the southern borders of Canaan. Gerar was the chief city of the Philistines....
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister Abraham’s repetition of his old fault; the power of former temptations I. THEIR POWER MAY...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Sarah Again in Danger
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, wilt Thou slay also a righteous nation?
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

had. Genesis 20:6 Genesis 20:18 wilt. Genesis 20:17 Genesis 20:18 Genesis 18:23-25 Genesis 19:24 2 Samuel 4:11 1 Chronicles 21:17
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Wilt thou slay also a righteous nation — Not such a nation as Sodom.

⁴ But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

Related Commentaries of Genesis 20:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Genesis 20:4