“And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.”
God acknowledges Abimelech's clear conscience and says that is why he did not let him touch her. The divine protection is explicitly stated: God kept Abimelech from sinning, not Abimelech's own restraint. Psalm 19:13 prays to be kept from willful sins. God's sovereignty is operative even in the decisions of a pagan king, protecting both the king and the covenant matriarch simultaneously. The application: what sins have you been kept from without being aware of the keeping? The protection from sin that God provides is not always visible as protection in the moment.
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