29And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
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And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
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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