Genesis 20:4
But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
Genesis 20:4 in other translations
| BSB | Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent? |
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| WEB | Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? |
| ASV | Now Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation? |
| YLT | And Abimelech hath not drawn near unto her, and he saith, ‘Lord, also a righteous nation dost thou slay? |
| DARBY | But Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, wilt thou also kill a righteous nation? |
| BBE | Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation? |
| Webster | But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou also slay a righteous nation? |
What does Genesis 20:4 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 20:1-8
Crooked policy will not prosper: it brings ourselves and others into danger. God gives Abimelech notice of his danger of sin, and his danger of death for his sin. Every wilful sinner is a dead man, but Abimelech pleads ignorance. If our consciences witness, that, however we may have been cheated into a snare, we have not knowingly sinned against God, it will be our rejoicing in the day of evil. It is matter of…
Genesis 20:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 20:4
- Genesis 18:23-25
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
- 1 Chronicles 21:17
And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
- 2 Samuel 4:11
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
- Genesis 20:6
And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
- Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
- Genesis 20:17-18
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children. For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
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Context
- Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
- Genesis 20:4
But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
- Genesis 20:5
Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
Genesis 20:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas Abimelech no había llegado á ella, y dijo: Señor, ¿matarás también la gente justa? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Or Abimélec ne s’était pas approché d’elle; et il dit: Seigneur, feras-tu périr même une nation juste? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Abimelech aber hatte sich ihr nicht genaht; und er sprach: Herr, willst du auch eine gerechte Nation töten? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Abimelech vero non tetigerat eam, et ait: Domine, num gentem ignorantem et justam interficies? |