Genesis 26:9

New International Reader's Version

So Abimelek sent for Isaac. He said, “She’s really your wife, isn’t she? Why did you say she was your sister?” Isaac answered him, “I thought I might lose my life because of her.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:18

So Pharaoh sent for Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

Genesis 26:10

Then Abimelek said, “What have you done to us? What if one of the men slept with your wife? Then you would have made us guilty.”

Genesis 26:8

Isaac had been there a long time. One day Abimelek, the king of the Philistines, looked down from a window. He saw Isaac hugging and kissing his wife Rebekah.

John 14:9

Jesus answered, “Don’t you know me, Philip? I have been among you such a long time! Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Acts 12:11

Then Peter realized what had happened. He said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent his angel. He set me free from Herod’s power. He saved me from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”