John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:29
But the same day Lot went out of Sodom ,.... Being plucked and brought from thence by the angels early in the morning; and a fine morning it was; the sun was risen, and shone out upon the earth, as Lot got into Zoar, Genesis 19:15 . "The Jews" F9 Bereshit Rabba, sect. 50. fol. 45. 3. say it was the sixteenth day of Nisan: it rained fire and brimstone from heaven ; the Syriac version reads, "the Lord rained"; so it is said in Genesis 19:24 "the Lord rained from the Lord";... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 17:28
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot ,.... When he lived in Sodom, and before, and at the time of the destruction of that city with other neighbouring ones: they did eat, they drank ; See Gill on Luke 17:27 , and Ezekiel 16:49 . This is to be understood of the inhabitants of Sodom, and the other cities that perished with it: they bought, they sold : they traded among themselves, and with their neighbours; and, as it appears from the text referred to, they had no regard to... read more