27And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
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And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, …
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
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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