And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
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Gill's Exposition
And yet indeed she is my sister,.... In the same sense as Lot was his brother; for she was sister to Lot, and both were the children of Haran, the brother of Abraham:
she is the daughter of my…
- 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,…
Adam Clarke
She is my sister - I have not told a lie; I have suppressed only a part of the truth. In this place it may be proper to ask, What is a lie? It is any action done or word spoken, whether true or false…
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
she is indeed my sister See Gen 11:29; Gen 12:19. The marriage with a half-sister was evidently permitted in David's time (cf. 2Sa 13:13); and it was practised in the days of Ezekiel (Eze 22:11),…