But Abraham lodged a complaint ¹  against Abimelech concerning a well ²  that Abimelech’s servants had seized. ³ 

Abimelech commanded ¹  Israel for three years.

Then Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.” ¹ 

Abimelech moved on ¹  to Thebez; he besieged and captured it. ² 

Then Abimelech asked ¹  Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?” ² 

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these ¹  seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”

So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches ¹  this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” ² 

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, ¹  for you have become much more powerful ²  than we are.”

His concubine, ¹  who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech. ² 

Then Jotham ran away ¹  to Beer and lived there to escape from ²  Abimelech his half-brother. ³ 

So Abimelech and all his men came up ¹  at night and set an ambush outside Shechem – they divided into ²  four units.

Abimelech chased him, and Gaal ¹  ran from him. Many Shechemites ²  fell wounded at the entrance of the gate.

Abimelech went back ¹  to Arumah; Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem. ² 

Abimelech came and attacked the tower. When he approached the entrance of the tower to set it on fire,

a woman threw an upper millstone ¹  down on his ²  head and shattered his skull.

When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home. ¹ 

God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. ¹ 

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

But God appeared ¹  to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead ²  because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.” ³