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Spoken with Blood: 2Nd Verse Same As the First August 21, 2016 Study Notes Spoken with Blood: 2nd Verse Same as the First August 21, 2016 Genesis 20 1 From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife." 4 Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people? 5 Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this." 6 Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her. 7 Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours." 8 So Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things. And the men were very much afraid. 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done." 10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you did this thing?" 11 Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. 12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife. 13 And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'" 14 Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him. 15 And Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you." 16 To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is a sign of your innocence in the eyes of all who are with you, and before everyone you are vindicated." 17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children. 18 For the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. 1 More study helps at www.daretoventure.org Study Notes 20:1–18 Sarah and Abimelech The contrast between Abraham’s saintly deeds in ch. 18 and his deceitful cowardice here shocks every reader. If his fear in Egypt (12:10–20) was understandable though not justified, what can be said for his repeating the same misleading story about his wife in Gerar, a small town in the south­eastern corner of Canaan (cf. 10:19)? After enjoying such ​ intimacy with God in ch. 18 why had he apparently abandoned faith in divine protection and relied on his cunning? On the other hand, the men of Gerar are shown to be very different from the Sodomites. Abimelech protested the purity of his motives and his desire to please God. So we learn that Abraham was not as saintly as ch. 18 perhaps suggested, nor were all the Canaanites as wicked as Sodom. Real life is often a mixture of contradictions—the totally pure or completely evil exist only in fiction. Nevertheless, despite Abraham’s failings, God did protect him and Sarah and enrich them and grant grazing rights (15). Moreover, he heard Abraham’s prayers for Abimelech and his wives and healed their temporary infertility (17–18). Despite Abraham’s failings, the promises were still being fulfilled. But if God could answer Abraham’s prayers for Abimelech’s infertile wife, what about Sarah? Was she not going to have the child as promised? Notes. 1 From there, i.e. from Mamre (cf. 18:1). On Kadesh see 14:7, and on Shur see ​ ​ ​ ​ 16:7. 3 Throughout the ancient orient, adultery warranted the death penalty (cf. Lv. 20:10; ​ ​ Dt. 22:22). 5 A leader’s sins have dire consequences for his people (cf. 2 Sa. 24). 12 Later ​ 1 ​ ​ biblical law forbade marriage with half or full sisters (Lv. 18:9, 11). Abraham and Abimelech (Genesis 20:1–18) The present episode presents us with a familiar situation. In Genesis 12:10–20 Abraham had attempted to evade danger by presenting Sarah to the Egyptians as his sister, and not as his wife. The same pattern of events appears a third time in Genesis when Isaac tries to deceive Abimelech in the same manner (26:1–11). For many scholars this triplet of similar accounts is evidence of a multiplicity of sources for the book of Genesis. As Petersen remarks, they ‘have long served as whetstones on which various techniques of higher 156 criticism have been sharpened’. Recent studies have shown that this position is tenuous​ ​ at best. Literary analysis has gone a long way in verifying the fact that the three wife / 1 Wenham, G. J. (1994). Genesis. In D. A. Carson, R. T. France, J. A. Motyer, & G. J. Wenham (Eds.), New Bible commentary: 21st century edition (4th ed., p. 75). Leicester, England; ​ ​ Downers Grove, IL: Inter­Varsity Press. 2 More study helps at www.daretoventure.org Study Notes sister accounts are separate events. The stories certainly look alike and are arranged in a similar fashion, but we now know that duplication is the very essence of Hebrew narrative. 20:1. Then Abraham travelled from there to the land of the Negev, and he resided between ​ Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar. Abraham now moves ‘from there’—no location is given here, but it obviously refers to ​ ​ Mamre near Hebron (18:1). He heads ‘south’ (that is the meaning of the term ‘Negev’), and ​ ​ he ‘reside[s]’ between Kadesh and Shur. Abraham is semi­nomadic and, therefore, this ​ ​ may indicate a change of pasture: Abraham is moving his flocks in and through the region between the two towns. The locations of Kadesh and Shur have already been discussed in the commentary on Genesis 14:7 and 16:7. At one point in his transhumant wanderings, Abraham arrives at Gerar. The precise location of Gerar is uncertain, although biblical texts indicate that it lies near Beersheba (see 21:32; 26:33), and it is on a main thoroughfare from Canaan to Egypt (2 Chr. 14:12–13). Numerous suggestions for its location have been proffered: Tel Sera’ in the western Negev, some twenty kilometres north­west of Beersheba; Tel Haror, in the same region, approximately twenty kilometres west of Beersheba, and Tell Jemmeh. In any event, as Abraham approaches Gerar, the author reminds us of the patriarch’s status: he is a sojourner, or alien, without the rights and privileges of the citizens of Gerar. 20:2–5. And Abraham said about Sarah his wife, ‘She is my sister.’ So Abimelech King of ​ Gerar sent for and took Sarah. And God came to Abimelech in a dream at night, and he said to him, ‘Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman that you have taken, for she is a married woman!’ And Abimelech had not gone near her. And he said, ‘Lord, will you indeed destroy a nation [that is] righteous? Did he not say to me, “She is my sister”? And indeed [did not] she herself say, “He is my brother”? With integrity of my heart and with innocence of my hands I have done this thing.’ In order to protect himself, Abraham tells the people of the region that Sarah is his sister. He had used this deception previously with the Egyptians (see 12:10–20). While it is true that Sarah is Abraham’s sister, it is not the whole truth. She is his half­sister and she is married to him—Abraham conveniently omits these points. So the King of Gerar, Abimelech (a common name in the ancient Near East, meaning ‘My father is king’), takes Sarah from Abraham. According to Genesis 17:17, Sarah is ninety years old—what interest could the king have in such an old woman? Possibly he takes her not for her beauty but in order to form an alliance with Abraham, who is a man of great wealth. Or, perhaps Sarah may still have a youthful appearance—after all, she is soon to bear a child! God speaks to Abimelech in a dream. Revelation through dreams was a common form of divine communication in the ancient Near East, and occurs on a number of occasions in the 3 More study helps at www.daretoventure.org Study Notes book of Genesis. God’s first word to the king is ‘Behold!’ and here it is a particle of ​ ​ exclamatory force.
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