Genesis 20:6

God affirms Abimelech acted with integrity and reveals He kept him from sinning. The Lord sovereignly restrained the king from touching Sarah.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Sam 25:34Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
• 1 Sam 25:26Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
• Gen 31:7And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
• Gen 35:5As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
• Exod 34:24For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.
• 2 Th 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way.
• Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
• Ps 51:4Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
• Ps 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
• 2 Cor 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
• Gen 20:18for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.
• Gen 39:9No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
• Lev 6:2“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
• 1 Cor 7:1Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
• 2 Th 2:11For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,
• Hos 2:6–7Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
• Gen 26:11So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
• Gen 3:3but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”

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