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 indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”
• 1 Sam 25:26Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
• Gen 31:7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
• Gen 35:5They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.
• Exod 34:24For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
• 2 Th 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
• Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
• Ps 51:4Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
• Ps 81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
• 2 Cor 6:17Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
• Gen 20:18For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
• Gen 39:9No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
• Lev 6:2“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
• 1 Cor 7:1Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
• 2 Th 2:11Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
• Hos 2:6–7Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
• Gen 26:11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
• Gen 3:3but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”

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