And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
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Gill's Exposition
And Abimelech said unto Abraham,.... Continuing his discourse with him:
what sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? he desires to know what he had observed, either in him or his people, that…
- Abraham in Gerar 2. אבימלך .2 'ǎbı̂ymelek, Abimelekh, “father of the king.” 7. נביא nābı̂y' “prophet,” he who speaks by God, of God, and to God, who declares to people not merely things future,…
Abimelech, being thus warned of God in a dream, takes the warning, and, as one truly afraid of sin and its consequences, he rises early to obey the directions given him.
I. He has a caution for his…
Cambridge Bible
What sawest thou i.e. "what hadst thou in view?" An unusual use of the verb "to see." Cf. Psa 66:18, "if I regard (lit. -see") iniquity in my heart." Some scholars prefer, by a slight alteration of…