GENESIS CHAPTER 19 Two angels come to Sodom, GENESIS 19:1. Lot invites them in; they at first refuse, GENESIS 19:2. They enter; he entertains them, and they eat, GENESIS 19:3. The men of Sodom demand to know them, GENESIS 19:4,5. Lot dissuades them, GENESIS 19:6,7; offers his daughters; urges reason... [ Continue Reading ]
GO ON YOUR WAYS, and so this will be no hinderance to your occasions. WE WILL ABIDE IN THE STREET ALL NIGHT: this was no untruth, but really intended by them in the present state of things, and upon supposition that Lot should press them no further; but they also intended, if Lot was earnest with th... [ Continue Reading ]
HE DID BAKE UNLEAVENED BREAD, because that was sooner prepared, that so they might eat it, and after that go to bed in due time.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEFORE THEY LAY DOWN to sleep, of which this word is used, GENESIS 28:13 LEVITICUS 14:47, LEVITICUS 26:6. ALL THE PEOPLE FROM EVERY QUARTER; some to exercise villany, and some to please themselves with the contemplation of it, and some out of curiosity, &c. This is added to show how universally corr... [ Continue Reading ]
Either know who they are; or rather abuse them, as Lot's answer explains it, and so that word is used, GENESIS 4:1 NUMBERS 31:17 JUDGES 19:22. And for the sin here committed, see LEVITICUS 18:22, LEVITICUS 20:13 ROMANS 1:26,27 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9 JUDGES 1:7. They openly and impudently [ Continue Reading ]
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They were _brethren_ by community of nature and habitation; see GENESIS 9:5, GENESIS 29:4 LEVITICUS 19:17; and so he calls them, if possibly he might sweeten and restrain them.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH HAVE NOT KNOWN MAN, to wit, carnally. See GENESIS 24:16 NUMBERS 31:18 JUDGES 11:39. DO YE TO THEM AS IS GOOD IN YOUR EYES, whatsoever your purpose or pleasure is. See the same phrase GENESIS 20:15, GENESIS 41:37 NUMBERS 24:1, &c. A most imprudent and sinful motion, whereby he yielded to one si... [ Continue Reading ]
STAND BACK, or, _go further off, _ i.e. out of our way; stand not between us and the door; or, _come hither, _ that so they might seize him, and proceed in the designed wickedness. THIS ONE FELLOW CAME IN TO SOJOURN, AND HE WILL NEEDS BE A JUDGE: q.d. One man, and he too but a stranger, presumeth to... [ Continue Reading ]
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THEY SMOTE THE MEN, Heb. _with blindness, _ i.e. with a blindness both of body and mind. It was not a total blindness, as if they quite lost the use of their eyes, for they saw the house, though not the door, but it was a great dimness and confusion of their sight, and a disturbance in their common... [ Continue Reading ]
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WHICH MARRIED HIS DAUGHTERS; Heb. _took, _ or were _taking, _ or about to take, to wit, either to espouse, or to marry. Compare GENESIS 6:2, GENESIS 24:3 28:6 DEUTERONOMY 7:3. Anciently persons were first espoused, and after some time the marriage was consummated.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH ARE HERE; Heb. _which are found; _ i.e. which are present with thee, as this word is used, 1 CHRONICLES 29:17 2 CHRONICLES 5:11, 2 CHRONICLES 30:21 31:1. Whence some gather that he had two other daughters married to two Sodomitish men, who by their husbands persuasion and example staid and per... [ Continue Reading ]
HE LINGERED, either through lothness to part with all his estate, or to lose his sons-in-law; or through astonishment and distraction of mind, which made him both listless and impotent.... [ Continue Reading ]
Either one of the angels said this, or the third person, the Lord himself, who having parted from Abraham, after some time came to Lot, as appears both by the change of the number; for before this he speaks of them in the plural number, but from hence in the singular number, as GENESIS 19:19,21,22;... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Unto one of them, as is manifest from the following words.... [ Continue Reading ]
I CANNOT ESCAPE TO THE MOUNTAIN, because of the infirmity of my age, and the fainting of my spirits. Thus he showeth an unworthy and unreasonable distrust of God's power and goodness, which he had now experienced and acknowledged.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT IS A LITTLE ONE; therefore as its inhabitants, so its sins are fewer, and it will not be an eminent example of thy vengeance, as the other places will be.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE ACCEPTED THEE; Heb. _I have lift up thy countenance, _ i.e. granted thy request. The manner of the expression possibly may be taken from the custom of the eastern parts; where petitioners used not to fall upon their knees as we do, but to prostrate themselves with their face to the ground; an... [ Continue Reading ]
I CANNOT DO ANY THING TILL THOU BE COME THITHER, because of God's decree and promise to save thee from the general destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
This phrase may note, either the time of the day when this was done; or rather the nature and quality of the day, that the sun appeared and shone forth that morning in great lustre and glory; which is well noted as a very considerable circumstance of the history, and a great aggravation of the ruin,... [ Continue Reading ]
And the neighbouring cities, Admah and Zeboim, as appears from DEUTERONOMY 29:23 JEREMIAH 49:18 HOSEA 11:8. BRIMSTONE is added to the FIRE, either to convey and carry down the fire, which in itself is light and apt to ascend; or to increase it, ISAIAH 30:33; or to represent the noisomeness of their... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE PLAIN, to wit, where these cities and their territories lay, called _the plain of Jordan,_ GENESIS 13:10; all which then became, and to this day continues, to be a filthy lake, called the Dead Sea, because no fish lives in it.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS WIFE LOOKED BACK, through curiosity, or unbelief, or desire of what she left, or from all these causes; from behind her husband, whom she followed. Which circumstance seems to be mentioned as the reason of this presumption, because she could do it without her husband's observation or reproof, to... [ Continue Reading ]
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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 prayer for him be not there mentioned. And hereby it is insinuated, that Lot, though he was a righ... [ Continue Reading ]
HE FEARED TO DWELL IN ZOAR, lest he should either suffer from them or with them; perceiving now that though it was a little city, yet there was more wickedness in it than he imagined.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE EARTH; either, 1. In the whole earth; for they thought the same deluge of fire which destroyed the four cities had by this time extended itself to Zoar, and all other places, knowing that the whole world did lie in wickedness, and having possibly heard from their father, that the world, as it... [ Continue Reading ]
WINE they carried with them, amongst other necessary provisions, either from Sodom or Zoar. This, though an incestuous and abominable action, yet they thought was made lawful by the supposed necessity, as in the beginning of the world the marriage of brethren and sisters was lawful because necessary... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY MADE THEIR FATHER DRINK WINE, to wit, in excess, so as to deprive him of the use of his reason and grace, which was likely to frustrate their project: this was a great sin, not only in them, but also in Lot himself, not to be excused by ignorance of the virtue of wine, which being known to both... [ Continue Reading ]
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Which they might possibly imagine to be an evidence of Divine approbation of their fact; whereas, indeed, it was a design of God to make a lasting monument of their sin and shame.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 1807_ CALLED HIS NAME MOAB, i.e. _of my father, _ begotten upon me by my father. So she had learned from her neighbours _to declare her sin as Sodom,_ ISAIAH 3:9. THE MOABITES were a mischievous and infamous people, branded, as their brethren also the Ammonites were, with characters of God's displ... [ Continue Reading ]
CALLED HIS NAME BEN-AMMI, i.e. _the son of my people, _ or kindred, not of the cursed race of the Sodomites, where I was to be married. This is something more modest than the other in the name she gives, but both impudently glorying in their sin and shame, of which they should have bitterly repented... [ Continue Reading ]