Genesis 12:15

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Summary

Genesis 12:15

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Princes

Taken

Hebrews 13:4

General references

Psalm 105:14

Bible References

Princes

Then said the king's servants that attended upon him, Let there be maidens, virgins of beautiful countenance, sought for the king;

If a ruler hearken to lying words, all his servants are wicked.

They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring the fire after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the river; and her maids went along by the river's side. And she saw the ark in the midst of the sedge, and sent her handmaid and fetched it.

And Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had ended building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

Now behold, thou reliest upon the staff of that broken reed, upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it goes into his hand and pierces it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that rely upon him.

Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

There did they cry, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the time appointed go by.

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast like a young lion among the nations, and thou wast as a monster in the seas; and thou didst break forth in thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Taken

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

And the maiden pleased him, and obtained favour before him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, and her portions, and the seven maidens selected to be given her, out of the king's house; and he removed her and her maids to the best place of the house of the women.

Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;

So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

General references

He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings for their sakes,