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Verse Genesis 19:26. _SHE BECAME A PILLAR OF SALT_] The vast variety
of opinions, both ancient and modern, on the crime of Lot's wife, her
change, and the manner in which that change was effected, ar...
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- 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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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III. LOOKING BACK.
26. BUT HIS WIFE LOOKED BACK FROM BEHIND HIM.
The whole family had been commanded not to look behind them. To do so
was disobedience to God. Instead of pressing forward with. stead...
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WIFE. Compare Luke 17:32.
LOOKED BACK: i.e. curiously. Compare Isaiah 63:5 and Genesis 19:28.
Same word as in Genesis 19:17.
beca
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_a pillar of salt_ Lot's wife for disobeying the command, recorded in
Genesis 19:17, was, according to the tradition, changed into a pillar
of salt. Our Lord's words, "Remember Lot's wife" (Luke 17:32...
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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...
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BUT HIS WIFE LOOKED BACK, &C.— The angels, Genesis 19:17 commanded
_Lot,_ and consequently those with him, _not to look back,_ which, I
apprehend, cannot be understood to mean, a mere turning of the e...
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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...
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_BUT HIS WIFE LOOKED BACK FROM BEHIND HIM, AND SHE BECAME A PILLAR OF
SALT._
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of
salt. This phrase, "pillar of salt," is perhaps to be...
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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...
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SHE BECAME A PILLAR OF SALT] This may mean that she was overwhelmed in
the rock salt of the district which was thrown up by the earthquake:
see on Genesis 14:3. The story of Josephus that this particu...
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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...
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Lot’s wife delayed too long. She stayed too close to the cities. So
some of the hot rock that fell from the sky fell on her. It became a
solid lump. The salt was probably not the ordinary kind of salt...
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HIS WIFE LOOKED BACK FROM BEHIND HIM. — In Oriental countries it is
still the rule for the wife to walk behind her husband. As regards the
method of her transformation, some think that she was stifled...
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וַ תַּבֵּ֥ט אִשְׁתֹּ֖ו מֵ אַחֲרָ֑יו
וַ תְּהִ֖
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a (n) pillar
of salt.
(n) Concerning the body only: this was a notable monument of God's
vengeance to all who passed that way....
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And his wife. As a standing memorial to the servants of God to proceed
in virtue, and not to look back to vice or its allurements.
(Challoner) --- His, Lot's wife. The two last verses might be within...
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And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of
the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as
the smoke of a furnace.
Revelation 19:3. So we are told, the sa...
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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...
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_AN OLD-WORLD BEACON_
‘But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar
of salt.’
Genesis 19:26
This is the whole of the record. The offence consisted only in a
look; and that a lo...
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26._But his wife looked back_. Moses here records the wonderful
judgment of God, by which the wife of Lot was transformed into a
statue of salt. But under the pretext of this narrative, captious and
p...
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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,...
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BUT HIS WIFE LOOKED BACK FROM BEHIND HIM,.... That is, the wife of
Lot, whose name the Jewish writers x say was Adith, or as others Irith
y; and, according to the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, sh...
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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of
salt.
Ver. 26. _But his wife looked back._] Whether out of curiosity, or
foolish pity, or as loath to leave so sweet a country, sh...
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Gen. 19:26. _Concerning Lot's wife. _ Revelation Examined with
Candour. "The unreasonable delay of Lot's wife was without question
occasioned by her solicitude for her children, which she left behind...
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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...
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_But his wife looked back from behind him_ Herein she disobeyed an
express command. Probably she hankered after her house and goods in
Sodom, and was loath to leave them. Christ intimates this to be h...
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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...
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The destruction of the Cities of the Plain...
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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of
salt. In the case of Lot's wife female curiosity and the longing for
her home in Sodom caused her to lag behind him and finally to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Genesis 19:26 wife H802 back H5027 (H8686) him H310 pillar H5333 salt
H4417
looked - Genesis 19:17
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‘But his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of
salt.'
The final footnote increases the tragedy for Lot and warns against
complacency. His wife was possibly a native Sodomite and...
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Genesis 19:26
This is the whole of the record. The offence consisted only in a look;
and that a look directed towards a city which may have been her
birthplace, and which contained many that were dear...
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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...
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Genesis 19:12. _And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides?
son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast
in the city, bring them out of this place:_
Let me bid eve...
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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...
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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...
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_But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar Of
salt_
THE CAUSE AND DANGER OF BACKSLIDING
I. THE CAUSE OF BACKSLIDING. Unbelief, leading to
(1) disobedience,
(2) indecision....
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 19:26 The PILLAR OF SALT may have been
composed of the fiery matter raining in molten lumps from the sky.
⇐...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 19:25. Those cities.] Besides Sodom and Gomorrah, other cities
were involved in this destruction, the cities of Admah and Zeboim
(Deuteronomy 29:23; Hosea 11:8), and all in th...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 19:12, GENESIS 19:13
AND THE MEN SAID UNTO LOT,—after the incident recorded in the
preceding verses. Lot by this time had doubtless recognized their
celestial character; accordingl...
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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...
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WHERE LOOKEST THOU
Genesis 13:8; _Genesis 18:20; Genesis 19:25_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Our Scripture today presents four looks toward Sodom. 1. There was the
look of Lot, or the look of worldly adv
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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...
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But his wife looked back from behind him — Herein she disobeyed an
express command. Probably she hankered after her house and goods in
Sodom, and was loath to leave them. Christ intimates this to be h...