John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 26:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Abimelech charged all [his] people, etc.] All his subjects throughout his kingdom, and particularly the inhabitants of Gerar, and more especially his courtiers and servants about him: saying, he that toucheth this man or his wife; that does any injury to one either by words or deeds, or behaves immodestly to the other, or attempts to ravish her; this being sometimes used as a modest expression carnal knowledge of a woman; or that does either of them any harm or hurt in any respect whatever: shall surely be put to death; this severe edict he published, in order to deter his subjects from using them ill, to which they might be provoked by Isaac’s dissimulation, and by his evil suspicions of them.

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