Genesis 20:1
SOUTH. the _Negeb._ See Genesis 12:9; Genesis 13:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUTH. the _Negeb._ See Genesis 12:9; Genesis 13:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID. Abraham's expedient. the next assault on Abraham in the Great Conflict for the destruction of the promised seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15). See App-23. God had to intervene (Genesis 20:3), for man could know nothing of it. Abraham's fear shown in Genesis 20:11. MY SISTER. half-sister. See no... [ Continue Reading ]
DREAM. 20 recorded in Scripture (see App-10). Genesis 20:3; Genesis 28:12; Genesis 31:10; Genesis 31:24; Genesis 37:5; Genesis 37:9; Genesis 40:5; Genesis 40:6; Genesis 41:1;... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD*. Jehovah. One of the 134 emendations of the Sopherim. See App-32. ALSO, i.e. as well as Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 19. NATION. Abimelech evidently expected God to slay the whole nation.... [ Continue Reading ]
I ALSO WITHHELD. Divine intervention needed. Compare Genesis 20:2. Note the emphatic pronouns. See App-23. SINNING. See App-44. TOUCH. Here is the Hebrew word _naga_. touch, used in. clear understandable sense as it is used in Genesis 3:3, "neither shall ye _touch_ it". See note on Genesis 3:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROPHET. First occ, showing that prediction is only. small part of its meaning. God's spokesman. Here, it is _prayer_ (compare Exodus 4:16 with Exodus 7:1), and prayer is associated with prophesying, i.e. _witnessing_ (1 Corinthians 11:5).... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT. Figure of speech _Aganactesis._ SIN. Hebrew. _chat'a._ See App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAWEST THOU. hadst thou seen.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOUGHT. Hebrew. _said_: i.e. said [to myself]. SLAY ME. Showing how his fears were worked upon by the enemy. See Genesis 20:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
SISTER. The daughter of Terah by another wife (than Abraham's mother): therefore, Abraham's half-sister. See App-29.... [ Continue Reading ]
CAUSED. The verb is in the plural. kindness. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause). Kindness put for the kind _deeds_ caused by it.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BROTHER. Figure of speech _Irony._ COVERING, &C. Figure of speech _Periphrasis._ App-6. Having called Abraham her "brother", he uses this beautiful Figure for her husband. Compare Genesis 24:65; 1 Corinthians 11:5, &c. REPROVED, i.e. by the Irony.... [ Continue Reading ]