11And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
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Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Isaac had now laid aside all thoughts of going to Egypt, and, in obedience to the heavenly vision, sets up his staff in Gerar, the country in which he was born (Gen. 26:6), yet there he enters into temptation, the same temptation that his good father had been once and again surprised and overcome by, namely, to deny his wife, and to give out that she was his sister. Observe, I. How he sinned, Gen.…
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