Genesis 20:6

6. In a dream Repeated again from Genesis 20:3. It would seem as if the dream had been broken by the emotion of Abimelech, and after a period of wakefulness he dreamed again, and God again revealed himself . “The prophetic dream of the night is generally closely connected with the moral reflections and longings of the day. It is in full agreement with the nature of dreams that the communication should be made in several acts, not in a single one. See chaps. 37 and 41, and Matthew 2:0.” Lange.

Yea, I know Or, I have known. Abimelech has not been without the knowledge and care of the true God, ( האלהים , the Elohim,) who now accepts his plea, and adds:

I also withheld thee from sinning against me God had overruled the whole matter . Comp . Genesis 20:3-4; Genesis 20:17-18, notes .