Bible Person
Meaning: father of the king · Male · 24 cross references
This Abimelech entry refers to the Philistine or Gerarite ruler who appears in the Abraham and Isaac narratives. He is the foreign king drawn into the patriarchal story when the covenant family brings both blessing and danger into his territory through deception and divine intervention. First appears in Gen 20:2.1
AI summary: This Abimelech matters because he appears at the boundary between the covenant household and surrounding political powers. The cross references present him as the king who takes Sarah under false assumptions, is warned directly by God, restores her to Abraham, and later appears again in relation to Isaac and the tensions over wells, land, and peaceful coexistence. He is not portrayed as the covenant bearer, but neither is he a flat villain. Taken together, the material presents this Abimelech as a foreign ruler whose encounters with Abraham and Isaac reveal how God's protection, moral accountability, and the patriarchal promise extend beyond the immediate family circle.1
Central Figure
Abimelech
Meaning: father of the king
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.