4But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? …
And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children. …
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-7)It appears by this that God revealed himself by dreams (which evidenced themselves to be divine and supernatural) not only to his servants the prophets, but even to those who were out of the pale of the church and covenant; but then, usually, it was with some regard to God’s own people as in Pharaoh’s dream, to Joseph, in Nebuchadnezzar’s, to Daniel, and here, in Abimelech’s, to Abraham and Sarah,…
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