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Genesis 21:26 KJV
Genesis · chapter 21 · verse 26
And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.Genesis 21:26 · King James Version
Genesis 21:26 in context
24And Abraham said, I will swear.
25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
26And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
27And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
28And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- AbimelechʼĂbîymelekAbimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two IsraelitesH40 →
- heardshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- doneʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- tellnâgadproperly, to frontH5046 →
- wotyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
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We have here an account of the treaty between Abimelech and Abraham, in which appears the accomplishment of that promise (Gen 12:2) that God would make his name great. His friendship is valued, is courted, though a stranger, though a tenant at will to the Canaanites and Perizzites. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-32