Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.