Genesis 21:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

Genesis 21:27 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 17:13
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:
Isaiah 32:8
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Genesis 14:22-23
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, …
Proverbs 18:24
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

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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 indu…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

25-31. And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well--Wells were of great importance to a pastoral chief and on the successful operation of sinking a new one, the owner was solemnly informed in person. If, however, they were allowed to get out of repair, the restorer acquired a right to them. In unoccupied lands the possession of wells gave a right of property in the land, and dread of this had…