Genesis 20:18 - Exposition

For the Lord ( Jehovah ; vide supra on Genesis 20:3 ) had fast closed up all the wombs— i.e. prevented conception, or produced barrenness (cf. Genesis 16:2 ; Isaiah 66:9 ; 1 Samuel 1:5 , 1 Samuel 1:6 ; for the opposite, Genesis 29:31 ; Genesis 30:22 ); " poena convenientissima; quid enim convenientius esse poterat, quam ut amittat, qui ad se rapit aliena " (Musculus). Vide Havernick, § 19— of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife— the motive obviously being to protect the purity of the promised seed.

HOMILETICS