John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 18:25
That be far from thee to do after this manner ,.... He represents it as a thing unbecoming the divine Majesty, and contrary to the nature and perfections of God: to slay the righteous with the wicked ; which is true of eternal punishment, but not of temporal calamities, in which the righteous are often involved with the wicked, though not for the same reasons, and under the same considerations, and for the same ends: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 18:24
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city ,.... Within the Pentapolis, which consisted of five cities; and so ten righteous persons are supposed to be in each, as Jarchi observes, agreeably to the Targum of Jonathan;"perhaps there may be fifty righteous persons in the city who pray before thee, ten for every city, answerable to the five cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar:" wilt thou also destroy, and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are ... read more