17So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
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 that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-18)Here is, I. The kindness of a prince which Abimelech showed to Abraham. See how unjust Abraham’s jealousies were. He fancied that if they knew that Sarah was his wife they would kill him; but, when they did know it, instead of killing him they were kind to him, frightened at least to be so by the divine rebukes they were under. 1. He gives him his royal licence to dwell where he pleased in his cou…
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