The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 20:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother. From which it is clear that the Philistine monarch, equally with the Egyptian Pharaoh, shrank from the sin of adultery.

In the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. I.e.

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