Genesis 26:9 meaning and explanation
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
Genesis 26:9, Berean Standard Bible
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Abimelech, king of the Philistines in Gerar, summons Isaac after seeing him caress Rebekah and realizes she is his wife, not his sister. Isaac had lied out of fear that the men of Gerar would kill him for his beautiful wife, repeating the very failure his father Abraham had committed in a similar place.
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