7Now 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.
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Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. …
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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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