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2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis 20:2 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-2)Here is, 1. Abraham’s removal from Mamre, where he had lived nearly twenty years, into the country of the Philistines: He sojourned in Gerar , Gen. 20:1. We are not told upon what occasion he removed, whether terrified by the destruction of Sodom, or because the country round was for the present prejudiced by it, or, as some of the Jewish writers say, because he was grieved at Lot’s incest with hi...
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