<span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Um anjo de parte de Deus.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">Deus</span>, porém, veio a <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Já explicado que os habitantes da antiga Canaan titulavam a seus reis com nomes honrosos e que os mesmos eram usados pelas gerações. Abimêlekh (Meu pai é rei) era o título dos reis dessa região, geração após geração. Em Salem, os reis eram nomeados Malquitsêdeq (Meu rei é justiça). Assim, também o neto de Abimêkh será Abimêlekh.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">Abimeleque</span>, em sonhos, de noite, e disse-lhe: Eis que estás para morrer por causa da mulher que tomaste; porque ela tem marido.
Sforno on Genesis
ויבא אלוקים אל אבימלך, this visitation was of a similar kind to that reported with Lavan (31,24) and Bileam (Numbers 22,24) respectively. The Torah refrains from speaking about a מחזה, “a vision,” in order not to place these wicked people on a pedestal similar to our patriarchs. The expression דבור to describe a verbal communication to these individuals is also absent, G’d having reserved such an expression for communications with prophets, as He pointed out to Miriam and Aaron in Numbers 12,6. Avimelech did not experience a visual image of G’d in his dream at all. He perceived a divine voice addressing him.
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Or HaChaim on Genesis
הנך מת על האשה אשר לקחת. "Here you are going to die on account of the woman you have taken." The meaning is "after I reveal to you that she is married you will be guilty of death." Had G'd not informed Avimelech of Sarah's true status as a married woman, he would not have been guilty of death even if he had slept with her. Any Gentile who sleeps with a woman whom he has reason to believe to be single is innocent of adultery. Maimonides explains this in Hilchot Melachim 9,5.
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Radak on Genesis
ויבא אלוקים אל אבימלך בחלום הלילה, a similar mode of expression has been chosen by the Torah when reporting G’d as appearing to Lavan and warning him not to harm Yaakov (Genesis 31,24). The wicked who do not deserve a communication from G’d, sometimes experience such a visitation as a mark of honour for the righteous people who are the subject of such a visitation. Pharaoh of Egypt at the time when he had seized Sarah had not been granted even such a dream, but the plagues visited upon him and his servants had been used to indicate the displeasure of Avraham‘s G’d with Pharaoh’s conduct. The differences in G’d’s dealing with different people are described by Elihu in Job 33, 14-16, “for G’d speaks time and again- though man does not perceive it- in a dream at night, a night vision, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber in their beds. Then He opens men’s understanding and by disciplining them leaves His signature.” The two methods G’d employs are either dreams or afflictions.
