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

But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God did not give him the [power] to hurt me.

So Israel departed from Shechem, and the fear of God was upon the cities round about them, and they did not pursue after the children of Israel.

For when I have cast out the nations from before your face, and have enlarged your coasts, no one shall desire your land, whenever you may go up to appear before the Lord your God, three times in the year.

And now my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, as the Lord has kept you from coming against innocent blood and from executing vengeance for yourself, now therefore let your enemies, and those that seek evil against my lord, become as Nabal.

But surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who hindered me this day from doing you harm, if you had not hastened and come to meet me, then I said, Surely there shall not be one male left to Nabal till the morning.

For the Lord loves mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory; the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

As a rush of water, so is the king's heart in God's hand: He turns it wherever He wishes.

Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.

And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go, and return to my former husband; for it was better with me [before] than it is now.

and in this house there is nothing above me, nor has anything been kept back from me, but you, because you are his wife- how then shall I do this wicked thing, and sin against God?

The soul which shall have sinned, and willfully overlooked the commandments of the Lord, and shall have dealt falsely in the affairs of his neighbor in the matter of a deposit, or concerning fellowship, or concerning plunder, or has in anything wronged his neighbor,

Against You alone have I sinned, and done evil before You; that You might be justified in Your words, and might overcome when You are judged.

So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts; they will go on in their own ways.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains [will continue] until one arises from out of [the] midst.

And because of this, God will send them strong delusion, in order for them to believe the lie,

[ 3:4] but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, Every man that touches this man and his wife shall be liable to death.

Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Therefore "Come out from the midst of them and be separated," says the Lord. "Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you."