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 25:34For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
• 1 Sam 25:26Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
• Gen 31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
• Gen 35:5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
• Exod 34:24For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
• 2 Th 2:7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
• Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
• Ps 51:4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
• Ps 81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
• 2 Cor 6:17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
• Gen 20:18For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
• Gen 39:9There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
• Lev 6:2If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
• 1 Cor 7:1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
• 2 Th 2:11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
• Hos 2:6–7Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
• Gen 26:11And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
• Gen 3:3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

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