⁴ Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, ^(A)“Lord, will you kill an innocent people?

¹⁷ And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Lord my God, be against me and against my father's house. But do not let the plague be on your people.”

²³ Then Abraham drew near and said, ^(A)“Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? ²⁴ Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? ²⁵ Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, ^(B)so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! ^(C)Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

¹¹ How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now ^(A)require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”

¹⁷ Then ^(A)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 ^(B)had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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 ^(A)against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

²⁴ Then ^(A)the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.