Genesis 26:7-11

Isaac and Abimelech

⁷ When the men of the place asked him about his wife, _f he said, "She is my sister," for _g he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because _h she was attractive in appearance. ⁸ When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with ₁ Rebekah his wife. ⁹ So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'" ¹⁰ Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and _i you would have brought guilt upon us." ¹¹ So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

1. Cross References
   Genesis 12:13
   Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.
   Genesis 20:2
   And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
   Genesis 20:13
   And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'
   
2. Cross References
   Proverbs 29:25
   The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 24:16
   The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
   
4. Cross References
   Genesis 20:9
   Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.