Genesis 12:10-20 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.… 1. God's plagues may put wicked hearts upon speedy inquiry into their evils. 2. God's heavy strokes may force oppressors to call for oppressed to relieve them. 3. Wicked hearts will charge others to be the cause of their afflictions rather than themselves. 4. Sinful concealments in saints, are justly reprovable by the wicked (ver. 18). 5. Equivocation and ambiguous speaking to deceive is chargeable as evil by nature itself. 6. The infirmities of saints which may be occasion of sin unto the wicked are to be reproved. 7. Adultery is odious to the principles of corrupted nature (ver. 19). 8. Judgment wrings the prey out of the hand of the wicked. 9. Judgment makes wicked men give everyone their own. 10. God can make the mightiest enemies command good for, and be a guard to, His saints, and all they have (ver. 20). (G. Hughes, B. D.). Parallel Verses KJV: And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. |
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