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Rescue of Lot out of Sodom. (b. c. 1898.)
RESCUE OF LOT OUT OF SODOM. (B. C. 1898.) We have here the preparation for Lot's deliverance. I. Notice is given him of the approach of Sodom's ruin: We will destroy this place, Genesis 19:13. Note, The holy angels are…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:12-28
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; accordingly, the Codex Samarit…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out (obviously that same evening), and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters,—literally, those taking his daughters, meaning either those who had taken them (LXX; Targums, Knobel, Delitzsc…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass, when they had brought them (i.e. Lot and his family) forth abroad (literally, without; sc. the city), that he—one of the angels (Rabbi Solomon, Jarchi, Rosenmüller, Lange, 'Speaker's Commentary'); t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:18
And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord. Adonai, which should rather be translated Lord; whence it would almost seem as if Lot knew that his interlocutor was Jehovah. Keil admits that Lot recognized a manifestation…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:19
Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight (cf. Genesis 18:3), and thou hast magnified thy mercy (language inappropriate to be addressed to the angels, though exactly suitable if applied by Lot to Jehovah), w…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:20
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto (literally, thither), and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. Lot's meaning was that since Zoar was the smallest of…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:21
And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee (literally, I have lifted up thy face, the petitioner usually supplicating with his face toward the ground, so that the elevation of his countenance expressed the granting…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:22
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. I.e. "The Little;" obviously from Lot's remark concerning it (Genesis 19:20); Σηγώρ (LXX.)…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:23
The sun was risen upon the earth—literally, the sun went forth, i.e. it was now above the horizon. Lot had left Sodom with the first streak of dawn; but, having lingered, it was clear morning—when Lot entered into Zoar—…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:23-25
The righteousness of God revealed. The judgment of God upon Sodom and the cities of the plain. The deliverance of Lot. The reception of the two angels by Lot was a great contrast to that of the three by Abraham. The sce…
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. (b. c. 1898.)
Here is, I. The rescue of Lot out of Sodom. Though there were not ten righteous men in Sodom, for whose sakes it might be spared, yet that one righteous man that was among them delivered his own soul, Ezekiel 14:14. Ear…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:24
The judgment of fire. I. THE DELIVERANCE OF LOT. 1. Mercifully warned. The intimation conveyed by the angels was— 2. Urgently hastened. Notwithstanding the angel's warning, it is obvious that Lot trifled, probably from…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord rained—literally, and Jehovah caused it to rain; καὶ κύριος ἔβρεξε (LXX.), which latter term is adopted by Luke in describing this event (Genesis 17:1-27 :29)—upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah—and also upon…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:25
And he overthrew—literally, turned over, as a cake'; whence utterly destroyed (cf. Deuteronomy 29:23; κατέστρεψε, LXX.; subvertit, Vulgate). In Arabic "the overthrown' is a title applied, κατ ἐξοχὴν, to Sodom and Gom…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:26
This also is written for our admonition. Our Saviour refers to it (Luke 17:32), Remember Lot's wife. As by the example of Sodom the wicked are warned to turn from their wickedness, so by the example of Lot's wife the ri…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:26
But his wife looked back from behind him,—i.e. went behind him and looked back; ἑπέβλεψεν (LXX.), implying wistful regard; respiciens (Vulgate); an act expressly forbidden by the angel (Genesis 19:17)—and she became (…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:26
The danger of falling back. "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." Every part of this narrative suggestive of lessons. Reminded how "the righteous scarcely saved," and of the danger…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:27-29
Our communion with God consists in our gracious regard to him and his gracious regard to us; we have here therefore the communion that was between God and Abraham, in the event concerning Sodom, as before in the consult…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:27
And Abraham gat up early in the morning (of the catastrophe) to the place (i.e. and went to the place) where he stood before the Lord (vide on Genesis 18:22).
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:28
And he looked toward—literally, towards the face, or visible side (cf. Genesis 18:16 where the same phrase is employed to describe the act of the angels on leaving Mamre)—Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:29
The last days of Lot. I. HAUNTED BY TERROR. 1. The terror of Divine judgment. The appalling spectacle of Sodom's overthrow had no doubt filled him with alarm. And so are God's judgments in the earth designed to put the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:29-38
EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on 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 history in which the writer treats of Lot's…