Season 4 Episode 9 – Genesis 20: Give Her Back!

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Intro! - 1:38

Jasmine’s Tea! - 4:17

A’ight So Boom! - 7:19

Read Genesis 20 1-2 - 12:49

• Abraham on the move

• Journeyed - moved from where he was

• Toward the Negev (South?)

• Sojourned in Gerar (Sojourned)

• Not again 

• Apparently in another king’s land (thus sojourning)

• Abraham calls Sarah his sister

• Abimelech takes Sarah

Read Genesis 20 3-7 - 22:43

• God came to Abimelech (what does abimelech mean)

• In a dream by night

• Made a statement (you are a dead man)

• Tells him why (Sarah)

• Abimelech had not approached her

• Abimelech is scared and responds

• Appealing to the Lord (Adonai) Justice (innocent)

• He himself told me their relation (sister not wife)

• She herself told me their relation (brother not husband)

• I acted on the truth that I knew

• Integrity of my heart

• Innocence of my hands

• God responds to Abimelech in a dream (continuation)

• What the LORD knows (of course he knows, event the motive of the heart)

• In the integrity of your heart (good or bad)

• The LORD kept Abimelech from acting (I kept you)

• This would have been a sin

• This sin would have been against the God

• I did not let you touch her 

• God tells Abimelech what to do

• Return the man’s wife (Abraham’s)

• Abraham is a prophet (First Mention of Prophet)

• So that he will pray for you

• If this happens you will not die

• Don’t do it you will die

• All who are yours will die

Read Genesis 20 8-10 - 39:45

• The Morning

• Early in the morning (must have hit him hard)

• Called his servants told them about the dream and they were afraid (right response)

• Tells them the truth 

• Call’s Abraham and questions him (all in the context of adultery)

• What have you done to us? (not just the king but everyone)

• How have I sinned against you?

• What did you see? - What prompted you to do this thing?

• Abimelech is blaming Abraham for 

• Bringing a great sin on his kingdom

• Doing things to Abimelech that should not be done

Read Genesis 20 11-13 - 56:46

• Abraham’s response

• There is no fear of God  ‘AT ALL’ in this place - so I had to ( Says who?)

• Because of that they will kill me because of my wife

• I really did not  lie

• She is my sister, like really, but she is kinda my wife also (Later condemned - Lev 18:9, 11; 20:17; Deut 27:22; Ezek 22:11)

• Bringing God into this (catching strays?) - If he left me there?

• God caused me to wander from my father’s house (really tho?)

• Bringing Sarah into this (A plan from the jump)

• This is a kindness you must do to me (a command?)

• Every place we go you say “He is my brother”

Read Genesis 20 14-16 - 1:12:20

• Pharaoh did the same thing (sort of)?

• Pharaoh gave to Abram prior to knowing who Sarah really was (to win favor)

• Abimelech took (like Sarah?) sheep and oxen, male and female servants

• Gave them to Abraham

• Returned Sarah

• Opened his land to Abraham, dwell where you want

• Pharoah did not do this (as far as we know)

• 1000 pieces of silver to “Sarah’s Brother” (Abraham)

• Attests to Sarah’s

• Innocence in the eyes for all who are with you

• Vindicated before everyone

Read Genesis 20 17-18 - 1:24:15

• Abraham Prays

• Abraham prayed to God

• God answered Abraham’s prayers

• God healed his wife (so they were already sick)

• Female servants so they bore children (hints at the LORD’s ability to open and close wombs)

• Role reversal

• Abraham is the upstanding one interceding for Abimelech

• Abimelech is under judgment of the LORD