16And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
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And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-20)Here is, I. The danger Sarai was in of having her chastity violated by the king of Egypt: and without doubt the peril of sin is the greatest peril we can be in. Pharaoh’s princes (his pimps rather) saw her, and , observing what a comely woman she was, they commended her before Pharaoh , not for that which was really her praise—her virtue and modesty, her faith and piety (these were no excellencies…
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