Abimelech — Симфония — English Standard Version

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

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.”

Gen 20:4

Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, “Lord, will you kill an innocent people?

Gen 20:8

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.

Gen 20:9

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.”

Gen 20:10

And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you did this thing?”

Gen 20:14

Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.

Gen 20:15

And Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you.”

Gen 20:17

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

Gen 20:18

For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Gen 21:22

22 At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

Gen 21:25

When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Gen 21:26

Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.”

Gen 21:27

So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

Gen 21:29

And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”

Gen 21:32

So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Gen 26:1

1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Gen 26:8

When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.

Gen 26:9

So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”

Gen 26:10

Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

Gen 26:11

So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

Gen 26:16

And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

Gen 26:26

When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army,

Judg 8:31

And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.

Judg 9:1

1 Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family,

Judg 9:3

And his mother’s relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”

Judg 9:4

And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.

Judg 9:6

And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.

Judg 9:16

“Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and integrity when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house and have done to him as his deeds deserved —

Judg 9:18

and you have risen up against my father’s house this day and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative —

Judg 9:19

if you then have acted in good faith and integrity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.

Judg 9:20

But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.”

Judg 9:21

And Jotham ran away and fled and went to Beer and lived there, because of Abimelech his brother.

Judg 9:22

22 Abimelech ruled over Israel three years.

Judg 9:23

And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

Judg 9:24

that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Judg 9:25

And the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way. And it was told to Abimelech.

Judg 9:27

And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.

Judg 9:28

And Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?

Judg 9:29

Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, ‘Increase your army, and come out.’”

Judg 9:31

And he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you.

Judg 9:34

So Abimelech and all the men who were with him rose up by night and set an ambush against Shechem in four companies.

Judg 9:35

And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, and Abimelech and the people who were with him rose from the ambush.

Judg 9:38

Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your mouth now, you who said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them.”

Judg 9:39

And Gaal went out at the head of the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.

Judg 9:40

And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.

Judg 9:41

And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives, so that they could not dwell at Shechem.

Judg 9:42

On the following day, the people went out into the field, and Abimelech was told.

Judg 9:44

Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the field and killed them.

Judg 9:45

And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.

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