ABIMELECH, king of Gerar, a country of the Philistines, was contemporary with Abraham. This patriarch and his family being there, his wife Sarah, though 90 years of age, was not safe in it; for Abimelech carried her off, and was so enamoured of her, that he resolved to marry her. Abraham did not declare himself Sarah's husband; but gave out she was his sister. But the king being warned in a dream, that she was married to a prophet, and that he should die if he did not restore her to Abraham, the king obeyed: at the same time reproving Abraham for his disingenuity; who thereupon, among other excuses, said she was really his sister, being born of the same father, tho' of a different mother. Abimelech afterwards gave considerable presents to Abraham; and a covenant, that of Beerseba, was entered into between them.—After the death of Abraham, there being a famine in the neighbouring countries, Isaac his son also withdrew into Gerar, which was then likewise governed by a king called—