Because the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

He permitted not a man to oppress them, and He reproved kings for their sakes,

And David said to Ornan, Give me your place of the threshing floor, and I will build upon it an altar to the Lord: give it to me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease from [among] the people.

[Such a one] as would not reverence the face of an honorable man, neither knows how to give honor to the great, so as that their persons should be respected.

He allowed no man to wrong them; and He rebuked kings for their sakes;

[saying], Touch not My anointed ones; and do My prophets no harm.

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.