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Genesis 20

Abraham and Abimelek

Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her. But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.” ...

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  1. and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.
  2. Abraham and Abimelek

    Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar,
  3. and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.
  4. Isaac and Abimelek

    Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar.
  5. So Isaac stayed in Gerar.
  6. So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled.
  7. But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.
  8. Meanwhile, Abimelek had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces.
  9. and Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. Such a great number of Cushites fell that they could not recover; they were crushed before the Lord and his forces. The men of Judah carried off a large amount of plunder.
  10. They destroyed all the villages around Gerar, for the terror of the Lord had fallen on them. They looted all these villages, since there was much plunder there.
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13 topical index results for “Gerar”

ABRAHAM : Lives in Gerar; deceives Abimelech concerning Sarah, his wife (Genesis 20)
ANIMALS » KINDNESS TO: INSTANCES OF » People of Gerar, in providing tents for cattle (2 Chronicles 14:15)
FALSEHOOD » INSTANCES OF » In denying to the king of Gerar, that she was Abraham's wife (Genesis 20:5,16)
GOD » HIS PRESERVING CARE EXEMPLIFIED » in Gerar (Genesis 20:3)
ISAAC » The miraculous son of Abraham » Moves away to the valley of Gerar, afterward called Beer-sheba (Genesis 26:22-33)
SARAH » Also called SARAI » Abraham represents her as his sister, and Abimelech, king of Gerar, takes her; she is restored to Abraham by means of a dream (Genesis 20:1-14)