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Genesis 19:29

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. When God destroyed the cities, ... This is most welcome and instructive, after so painful a narrative. It shows, if God is a "consuming fire" to the wicked, He is the friend of the righteous: 'Remembering' the intercessions of Abraham, He rescued Lot from the terrific scene; and what confidence should not this give us that He will 'remember' the intercessions of a greater than Abraham in our behalf.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 19:29. _ GOD REMEMBERED ABRAHAM_] Though he did not descend lower than _ten_ righteous persons, (see Genesis 18:32,) yet the Lord had respect to the spirit of his petitions, and spared...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - The Destruction of Sodom and Amorah 9. גשׁ־הלאה gesh-hāl'âh, “approach to a distant point,” stand back. 11. סנורים _san__e__vērı̂ym_, “blindness,” affecting the mental more than the ocular visi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 19 THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH _ 1. The angels visit (Genesis 19:1)_ 2. Lot and the Sodomites (Genesis 19:6) 3. The destruction of Sodom announced (Genesis 19:12) 4. Lot and his

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENESIS 12:1 TO GENESIS 25:18. THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. In this section the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main sources...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The men have learnt all they need to know of Sodom's character, and tell Lot of its impending fate that he may be rescued with his household. His prospective sons-in-law (_mg.)_ do not heed his warnin...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. REMEMBERED. Lot's deliverance due to Abraham's prayer. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ CITIES. the city. Figure of speech _Heterosis_ (of Number). App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, &c. 24. _Then the Lord_, &c. The destruction of the cities of the Plain is an event to which frequent allusion is made in Holy Scripture. The impressive features...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    CITIES IN WHICH LOT DWELT— That is, in _one_ of which Lot dwelt. So ch. Genesis 8:4. _the ark rested on the mountains, i.e._. one of the mountains of _Ararat._ See Judges 12:7. Matthew 26:8. His disci...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    7. _The Divine Judgment Executed_ (Genesis 19:23-29) 23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar. 24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah ou...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD REMEMBERED ABRAHAM] i.e. his intercession for Lot: see Genesis 18. 30-38. The only explanation of the shameful conduct of Lot's daughters, if understood literally, is to be found in their motive,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 1. The visit of the two angels (who are 'the men' of Genesis 18) may be regarded as the final test of Sodom. If they were hospitably received and honourably...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 19 TWO *ANGELS GO TO SODOM V1 The two *angels reached Sodom in the evening. Lot sat at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he stood up. He went...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    When God did these things, he had two purposes. • He had a purpose for the people at that time. He destroyed the cities in order to kill the wicked people and to save the good people. • He had a pur...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֗י בְּ שַׁחֵ֤ת אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת ־עָרֵ֣י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN Genesis 19:1 WHILE Abraham was pleading with the Lord the angels were pursuing their way to Sodom. And in doing so they apparently observed the laws of those hu...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    LOT AND HIS DAUGHTERS RESCUED Genesis 19:24 God had mercy on Lot for Abraham's sake. A missionary told me that when, on writing home to his mother, he narrated his miraculous deliverance from an infu...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here the story of the visit of Jehovah and the angels is continued. Here we see the two angels coming to Lot. By this time Lot had attained to a position of eminence in Sodom. The phrase, "sitting in...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    LOT AND HIS FAMILY Any doubt one has about God keeping wicked under his protective care is removed by this story. The angels delivered Lot, his wife and their two daughters safely from the city before...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Lot. Even he owed his safety to the merits of Abraham._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. Preci...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    29._God remembered Abraham_. Although Moses does not assert that the deliverance of Abraham’s nephew was made known to him; yet since he says, that Lot was saved from destruction for Abraham’s sake, i...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Lot, in the following chapter, because of his connection with the heavenly man, depositary of God's counsels and wisdom, and intercessor, himself down in the plain of this world, which he had chosen,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN GOD DESTROYED THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN,.... Not when he had destroyed them, but when he was about to destroy them; for Lot was sent out from them, and delivered out of them, b...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. Ver....

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Gen. 19:24-29. _Concerning the destruction of Sodom and the parts adjacent. _ The very ground of that region, great part of it, seems to have been burnt up. For it was in great measure made up of bitu...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And Abraham gat up early_ To see what was become of his prayers, he went to the very place where he had _stood before the Lord. And he looked toward Sodom_ Not as Lot's wife did, tacitly reflecting u...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Lot entertaineth two Angels. 4 The vicious Sodomites are striken with blindnesse. 12 Lot is sent for safety into the mountaines. 18 Hee obtaineth leaue to goe into Zoar. 24 Sodome and Gomorrah a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The destruction of the Cities of the Plain...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. So it...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    See Genesis 18:1 ff for the passage quote with footnotes. 3. _The entrance and sojourn of the two angels in Sodom, and the completed manifestation of its corruption in opposition to the better conduct...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    SODOM'S WICKEDNESS EXPOSED Not in the heat of the day, but in the evening, the two angels arrived at Sodom. Lot was sitting in the gate, the place of a judge. He was a believer making an effort to con...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-29 Lot was good, but there was not one more of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile. Care was therefore taken for saving Lot and his family. Lot lingere...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    GOD REMEMBERED ABRAHAM; either, 1. The promise made to Abraham, GENESIS 12:3. Or, 2. The prayer made by Abraham, GENESIS 18:23, who doubtless in his prayers for Sodom would not forget Lot, though his...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    There are two methods which the Lord graciously adopts, in order to draw the heart away from this present world. The first is, by setting before it the attractiveness and stability of "things above....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 19:29 God H430 destroyed H7843 (H8763) cities H5892 plain H3603 God H430 remembered H2142 (H8799) Abraham...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And so it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.' Throughout the...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    WHEN GOD (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 19:36). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 19 Notice: I. Sodom's sinfulness. Her sins were committed amidst an unbounded flush of prosperity; they were committed amidst scenes of much natural loveliness, Nature being outraged before...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot's backsliding and escape. CHARACTERS: Angels, Lot and family, Abraham, Moab, Benammi. CONCLUSION: No Christian can find his pleasure and profit in th...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 19:1. _Lot sat in the gate of Sodom,_ as a magistrate, no doubt, for the wicked accuse him of making himself a judge or elder. The main gate of a city was the usual place of hearing causes, an...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord: and he looked toward Sodom_ THE RIGHTEOUS MAN’S RETROSPECT OF GOD’S GREAT JUDGMENTS I. HE REGARDS THEM WITH SOLE...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 19:27 The text now focuses briefly on ABRAHAM, reminding the reader of his intercession for Lot and his family (Genesis 18:20)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 19:27_ THE RIGHTEOUS MAN’S RETROSPECT OF GOD’S GREAT JUDGMENTS The judgment which had long been threatened had now come. The righteous vengeance of God had...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 19:29 AND IT CAME TO PASS—not a pluperfect (Rosenmüller), as if a direct continuation of the preceding narrative, but a preterit, being the commencement of a new subdivision of the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter nineteen of the book of Genesis deals with the destruction of the city of Sodom. The Lord came to Abraham and informed him of the fact that because of the wickedness of Sodom, it was necessary...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    that God. Genesis 8:1 Genesis 12:2 Genesis 18:23 Genesis 30:22 Deutero

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    LOT FLEEING FROM SODOM Genesis 19:14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have before us one of the greatest conflagrations of all history, dual cities and their neighboring villages utterly consumed by fire sent...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    God remembered Abraham, and for his sake sent Lot out of the overthrow — God will certainly give an answer of peace to the prayer of faith in his own way and time....

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