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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 20:2 - 20:2
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Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister - Fear of the people among whom he was, tempted him to equivocate. His conduct was highly culpable. It was deceit, deliberate and premeditated - there was no sudden pressure upon him - it was the second offense of the kind [see on Gen 12:13] - it was a distrust of God every way surprising, and it was calculated to produce injurious effects on the heathen around. Its mischievous tendency was not long in being developed.
Abimelech (father-king) ... sent and took Sarah - to be one of his wives, in the exercise of a privilege claimed by Eastern sovereigns, already explained (see on Gen 12:15).