GENESIS 20 ABRAHAM LIES TO ABIMELECH

GENESIS 20                                                   ABRAHAM LIES TO ABIMELECH

1.Mention the first occasion when Abraham’s deceit is highlighted? (Gen: 12: 10)

Ans:  In chapter 12, we read that Abraham went down to Egypt, and he tell Sarai as his sister.

2.Abimelech was the king of which place? (Gen. 20:1,2)

Ans:  Abimlech, the king of Gerar.

3.About Sarai, What lie Abraham told to the king Abimelech? (Gen. 20:1-18)

Ans:  Sarai as his sister.

4.Abraham Lies About Sarah and so what happened to her” (Gen. 20: 1-2)

Ans:  “… Abimelech king of Gerar took Sarah into his harem"

5.Why did God intervene to restore Sarai to Abram? (Gen 17:19).

Ans:  The "promised seed" through Sarai had to be protected

  6. How did God come to Abimelech and what God told him? (Gen. 20:3)

Ans: 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."

7. What did God do to Pharaoh?

Ans:  God inflicted severe plagues on Pharaoh and his household.

8.What did God call Abraham when he spoke to king Abimelech in a dream? (Gen.20:7)

Ans: Abraham is a prophet.

9.What key word first time found in this chapter (Ref. 20:7, 17) in the Bible?

Ans:  “Here is the first mention of ‘prayer’ in the Bible.

10.Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him.  What he said? (Gen. 20:9)

Ans:  “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.”

11.  What were Abraham’s defense / excuse about his lie? (20: 11-13)

Ans:   He told Abimelech that Sarah was his father's daughter by a different wife, she became my wife.

12.  How the Lord affected the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah? (Gen. 20:18)

Ans:  The Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech.

13.  How Abimelech, his wife and others were healed? (Gen. 20:17-18)

Ans:  “Abraham prayed unto God and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bear children. …." (Gen. 20:17-18)

             

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