24And Abraham said, I will swear.
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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-32)We have here an account of the treaty between Abimelech and Abraham, in which appears the accomplishment of that promise (Gen. 12:2) that God would make his name great . His friendship is valued, is courted, though a stranger, though a tenant at will to the Canaanites and Perizzites. I. The league is proposed by Abimelech, and Phichol his prime-minister of state and general of his army. 1. The ind…
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