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not to be done. 10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawertthou, that thou hast (lolie this thing? II And Abraham said, He'cause Ithought, Surely the fear of Got1 is not in this place; and theywillslay mefor my wife's sake. 12 Alld yet indeed shtis my sister; she is the danghterof my father, but not the daughter of Iny mother; ancl she becanle mywife. 13 And it came to pass, when God caused 111e to wander from 111ylather's I~ouse, that I said unto her. This is thy kindness which tho11 shaltrhow.unto me; at every place whither we shall conie, ray of me. He ismy brother. 14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen and menservants,and women servants and gave then unto ~braham.'and restored himSarah his wife. 15 A~id Abi~nelech said Behold IIIY land isbefore thee.dwell wliere it pleaseth thee 16 And uAo ~arai he said Behold I havegiven thy brother a thotlshd pieces of silver; beholdInhe is to) thee rcovering of the eyes, unto all that art wit11 thee, ant1 with all other: thusrhr was reproved. 17 So Abraham prayed unto Got!, and God healedAbirnelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare chilh-en.18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech.because of Sarah Abraham's wife.As in the allegory the overthrow of Sodom in the daysof Abraham primarily represented the overthrow of theapostate kingdom of Israel in 606 B.C. by Nebuchadnezzar,the king of Babylon, so the allegory continues in the 20thchapter of Genesis to deal with the period immediatelyfollowing that overthrow-namely, the Seven Times ofthe Gentiles. King Abimelech taking Sarah into hishouse, believing her to be Abraham's sister, reminds usof the similar incident recorded in the 12th chapter in connectionwith Pharoah and his princes. In the formercase Pharoah and his princes represented Satan and hisevil angels; but in this case, Abimelech and his house representNebuchadnezzar and the Gentiles generally, whoin 606 B.c., after the overthrow of God's typical earthlykihgdom, sought to govern the world, and thus bringblessing tipon all the families of the earth. In otherwords, they sought to do all that God's original oath-boundcovenant, as typified by Sarah, is destined to do. But asAbraham did not devulge to Abirnelecll that his sisterSarah was also his wife, so God in His wisdom hid the fulltruth that he alone is bound to His original Covenant, andthat He alone has the right and power to bring into ems-30'