Genesis 20

Verse 3
My first thought when reading this was “poor Abimelech”, since Abraham did lie to him about who Sarah was. But then I realized that he brought this upon himself by having policies that ended up forcing men to lie to him. He was greedy and took beautiful women to himself because he could.

On further reading though, I wonder if Aabimelech really does deserve some sympathy. It sounds like he didn’t threaten Abraham, Abraham was just scared because of previous encounters.

Genesis 21

I feel really sad as I read the story of Hagar.