Genesis 20:2

Abraham And Abimelech

¹ From there Abraham traveled to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived in Gerar, ² Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him. ³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

Abimelech

Abraham

Gerar

Harem

Sarah

Genesis 12:15

Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s household.

Genesis 26:7

When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “The men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.”

Genesis 12:11-13

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are.

Genesis 20:12

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

Genesis 26:1

There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Genesis 26:16

And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

2 Chronicles 19:2

Then Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the Lord’s wrath is on you.

2 Chronicles 20:37

Then Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you formed an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord has broken up what you have made.” So the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish.

2 Chronicles 32:31

When the ambassadors of Babylon’s rulers were sent to him to inquire about the miraculous sign that happened in the land, God left him to test him and discover what was in his heart.

Proverbs 24:16

Though a righteous man falls seven times,
he will get up,
but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There is certainly no righteous man on the earth
who does good and never sins.

Galatians 2:11-12

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned.

Ephesians 4:25

Since you put away lying, Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices