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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 19:31

The first-born said, &c.— There can be no doubt, I suppose, that the principal reason why the sacred writer recorded this event, was to point out to the Israelites the incestuous and hateful origin of the Moabites and Ammonites, their enemies, as before he mentioned the sin of Canaan for the same reason. Other useful and instructive lessons against vice may indeed be derived from this history, which the inspired historian cannot be supposed to approve or commend by barely relating it; and in this view his credit is no way concerned.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 19:31. _OUR FATHER IS OLD_]. And consequently not likely to re-marry; _and_ there is _not a man in the earth _- none left, according to their opinion in all _the land_ of Canaan, of _th...

  • 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

    Lot's daughters, fearing that, with the exception of their father and themselves, mankind has perished, feel that upon them rests the responsibility of perpetuating the race. Their father alone is ava...

  • 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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    8. _Lot's Last End_ (Genesis 19:30-38) 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE FIRSTBORN SAID UNTO THE YOUNGER, OUR FATHER IS OLD, AND THERE IS NOT A MAN IN THE EARTH TO COME IN UNTO US AFTER THE MANNER OF ALL THE EARTH:_ The first-born said unto the younger. The first...

  • 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

    It was very important to people in those times that they should have *descendants. Lot’s daughters could not find husbands. The men who had intended to marry them were dead. (See verse 14.) So the dau...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE FIRSTBORN SAID UNTO THE YOUNGER. — Several modern commentators see in this recital a mark of Jewish hatred towards the Moabites and Ammonites, and an attempt to brand their origin with shame. Real...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תֹּ֧אמֶר הַ בְּכִירָ֛ה אֶל ־הַ צְּעִירָ֖ה

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the (p) earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: (p) Meaning in the country which the Lord...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _No man. If this had been true, Lot might have had children by them, without any fault. But they ought to have consulted him. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. I detain the Reader but to turn to two scriptures, after the perusal of this melancholy subject. The first is, 1 Corinthians 10:12. The...

  • 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

    31._And the firstborn said _(427) Here Moses narrates a miracle, which rightly brings the readers to astonishment. For, how could that unchaste intercourse come into the mind of the daughters of Lot,...

  • 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 THE FIRSTBORN SAID UNTO THE YOUNGER,.... That is, the firstborn of those two, or the elder of them; for, if Lot had other daughters that were married in Sodom, it is probable they were elder than...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Ver. 31. _And the firstborn, &c._] It is dang...

  • 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 sin of Lot and His Daughters...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the first-born said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth;...

  • 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

    30-38 See the peril of security. Lot, who kept chaste in Sodom, and was a mourner for the wickedness of the place, and a witness against it, when in the mountain, alone, and, as he thought, out of th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 w...

  • 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 19:31 firstborn H1067 said H559 (H8799) younger H6810 father H1 old H2204 (H8804) man H376 earth...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    LOT'S SUBSEQUENT CAREER (GENESIS 19:30). By choosing the well-watered Circle of Jordan with little regard for the consequences and the fact that it was outside the land chosen by Yahweh for His people...

  • 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 they made their father drink wine_ THE LESSONS OF LOT’S DISHONOUR I. THAT SAINTS WHO HAVE BEEN THE SUBJECTS OF EXTRAORDINARY MERCY MAY YET FALL INTO SIN. II. THAT IT IS DIFFICULT, EVEN FOR THE...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 19:31 Lot’s daughters had intercourse with him on consecutive nights, but he was unaware of it. This unseemly episode marked the origin of the MOABITES and AMMONITES....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 19:37. Called his name Moab.] “_From the father_,” or “_seed of the father._” GENESIS 19:38. BEN-AMMI. “_Son of my people_.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— G

  • 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

    not. Genesis 19:28 Mark 9:6 to come. Genesis 4:1 Genesis 6:4 Genesis 16:2...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Does the Bible condone incest? PROBLEM: Incest is denounced in emphatic terms in many biblical passages (cf. Leviticus 18:6; Leviticus 20:17). In fact, the Lord declared, “Cursed is the one who lies w...

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