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Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
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A Rebuke from a King
Commentators highlight the profound shame in this scene, as God uses Abimelech, a pagan king, to rebuke Isaac. John Calvin notes that when believers neglect God's voice, they deserve to be reproved even by unbelievers wrapped in 'the darkness of ignorance.' This serves as a powerful reminder that the sins of Christians can be obvious and shameful to a watching world.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
משׁמרת mı̂shmeret — “charge, ordinance.”
עשׂק ‛êśeq — Esek, “strife.”
שׂטנה śı̂ṭnâh<…
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19–35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
Abraham beg…
16th Century
Protestant
What is this thou hast done unto us? The Lord does not chastise Isaac as he deserved, perhaps because he was not so fully endowed with pat…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Abimelech said, what is this you have done to us ? &c.] By entertaining suspicions and jealousies of us as bad m…
There is nothing in Isaac's denial of his wife to be imitated, nor even excused. The temptation of Isaac is the same as that which overcame his fat…
