Lot tried to protect the *angels because they were his guests. That was the custom. But he still did not know that they were *angels. Lot offered to give his two daughters to the men of Sodom. He thought that the men of Sodom would take his daughters. And so they would not take the two men. That was a foolish and evil thing. But Lot did not know what he should do.
- 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...
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
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...
The men reach Sodom at even, and Lot, sitting as was customary in the spacious city gate, invites them, with the same courtesy and hospitality as his uncle, to stay the night in his house. They at fir...
2. _The Violence of the Sodomites_ (Genesis 19:4-11) 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every qu...
_AND LOT WENT OUT AT THE DOOR UNTO THEM, AND SHUT THE DOOR AFTER HIM,_ Lot went out at the door unto them. Hospitality was considered a sacred duty, and imposed upon a host the obligation of protecti...
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...
וַ יֵּצֵ֧א אֲלֵהֶ֛ם לֹ֖וט הַ פֶּ֑תְחָה וְ
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...
ANGELS WITH LOT IN SODOM Genesis 19:1 This chapter withdraws the veil from the ministry of angels. The Lord of Angels stayed with Abraham on the heights. He also, in future ages, was to descend into...
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...
GOD'S JUDGMENT Lot stood outside his house and pled with the men of Sodom. He would not turn over his guests to them. He even offered them his virgin daughters rather than have them sin against his v...
But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. Observe how God protects his people in the moment of danger....
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...
6._And Lot went out at the door unto them_. It appears from the fact that Lot went out and exposed himself to danger, how faithfully he observed the sacred right of hospitality. It was truly a rare vi...
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,...
AND LOT WENT OUT AT THE DOOR UNTO THEM,.... At the door of his house: AND SHUT THE DOOR AFTER HIM; the door of the passage to his house, the courtyard door, for another word is here used; unless the...
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, Ver. 6. _Lot went out._] So he exposed himself, to save his strangers, hoping to save them from that abominable violence. The righ...
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...
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,...
The Esvil Intention of the Sodomites...
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...
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...
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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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....
Genesis 19:6 Lot H3876 out H3318 (H8799) doorway H6607 shut H5462 (H8804) door H1817 him H310 Lot -...
‘And Lot went to the door and went out to them, and he shut the door behind him.' Lot is no coward. He goes to meet the thirsting crowd. The picture is vivid. His slow approach to the door. Then slip...
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...
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...
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...
_But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door_ THE EVE OF JUDGMENT TO SINNERS I. THEIR WICKEDNESS IS UNABATED. 1. It extends to all classes of the c...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 19:6 Lot’s readiness to protect the two men from the mob is admirable. In desperation he offers his two unmarried DAUGHTERS as substitutes—a shocking, cowardly, and inexcusable...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 19:5. That we may know them.] A well-known euphemism for a foul crime which derives its name from this infamous place. “From Leviticus 22-25 we learn that the practice of the...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 19:1 AND THERE CAME TWO ANGELS—literally, _the two angels_, _i.e._ the two men of the preceding chapter who accompanied Jehovah to Mature; οἱ δύο ἄγγελλοι (LXX.)—TO SODOM AT EV...
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...
Lot. Judges 19:23 door....
ABRAHAM AND LOT CONTRASTED Genesis 19:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we enter into Genesis nineteen we are struck with many contrasts between it and Genesis eighteen. The eighteenth speaks of Abraham and t...