“But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
God comes to Abimelech in a dream at night and says he is as good as dead because of the woman he has taken, for she is a married woman. The divine intervention is immediate and protective — the covenant matriarch is guarded before any harm comes to her. The phrase as good as dead uses the same formula as Genesis 2:17. The covenant promise that runs through Sarah cannot be interrupted by Abraham's failure to protect it. The application: God protects the promises he has made even when those entrusted with protecting them fail.
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