Here again Abraham tells someone that Sarah is his sister, not his wife. Again, some king gets in serious trouble with God for having a new wife that wasn’t actually his. This time they did make it extremely clear that no extramarital sex occurred (I wasn’t sure the other time) (is this just a different version of the other story, I wonder, or did it happen twice?) (if it happened twice, You were very patient, God. But You are, really). Anyway, You punished the king for taking Sarah as his wife, even though he didn’t know Sarah was married, and couldn’t have known. Do You always punish us for our unintentional sins, too? Abimelech seems like a decent guy--other than the fact that he seems to just take random women as wives, whether anyone involved wants it or not--because I can’t imagine Abraham actually agreeing to let the king have Sarah as his wife. If he did, than Abraham is was more of a wimp than I thought. I see a definite pattern, though, where You punish the people Abraham meets, but You don’t seem to punish Abraham. Maybe I’m forgetting something, but--why is that? Why, for instance, does Abraham get more sheep, cattle, etc. because he lied to the king about Sarah, and the king gets punished? Isn’t the whole situation really Abraham’s fault, not the king’s? Well, except for the fact that the king is just kidnapping random women for wives. He doesn’t seem to have learned a lesson about that. Is there a lesson? Or would there have been, 1000s of years ago, when women were little more than property? But You use and love and have relationships with women, too.
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