Genesis 12:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Genesis 12:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 105:14-15
He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; …
Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Exodus 18:27
And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
1 Samuel 29:6-11
Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not. …

Topics

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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 i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

18-20. Here is a most humiliating rebuke, and Abram deserved it. Had not God interfered, he might have been tempted to stay in Egypt and forget the promise (Psa 105:13, 15). Often still does God rebuke His people and remind them through enemies that this world is not their rest.