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Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 18:16-33

Genesis 18:16-Micah : . Apart from the insertions ( Genesis 18:17-Psalms :, Genesis 18:22 b – Genesis 18:33 a) the story went on to say that Abraham accompanied his guests, and Yahweh told him that he was going down to Sodom to ascertain if it was really as wicked as rumour declared; then the men went on towards Sodom and Abraham returned home. In the inserted passages judgment is already settled. Yahweh soliloquises and decides to take Abraham into his confidence in view of the great... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 18:32

Abraham in modesty could proceed no further; and being a good man himself, he had a charitable opinion of others, and thought there certainly were so many good men in all those cities, especially including Lot and his family. No doubt Abraham remembered Lot in his prayers; but that large and generous soul could not content himself with Lot’s preservation, but aims at the saving of the whole cities, which when he saw was doubtful and unlikely, he prayed for his deliverance out of that common... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 18:23-33

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 18:23. The righteous with the wicked.] Heb. A righteous man with a wicked one (Numbers 16:19-22; Psalms 11:4-7). Genesis 18:25. That be far from Thee.] The Heb. term expresses detestation of a thing as profane, abominable, and consequently that which was forbidden to be done. In all the parallel N.T. texts the Gr. is uniformly μη γενοιτο, and the A.V. “God forbid.” Genesis 18:27. Dust and Ashes.] In the Heb., which loves alliteration, gaphar va-aipher: dust in my origin,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 18:32

Genesis 18:32 I. Notice first the words of God which introduce this history. "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great," etc. Behind this human manner of speaking what a lesson is here! The judgments of God from time to time overtake guilty nations and guilty men; but, huge and overwhelming catastrophes as these often are, there is nothing hasty, blind, precipitate about them. He is evermore the same God who, when the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah waxed great, is described as going down to... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 18:32

DISCOURSE: 30ABRAHAM’S INTERCESSION FOR SODOMGenesis 18:32. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.THE selection of this chapter as one of the Lessons for this day [Note: Trinity Sunday.] intimates, that the doctrine of a Trinity of persons in the Godhead derives some confirmation from it. That one of these strangers who visited Abraham in the likeness of men, was... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 18:1-33

Chapter 18And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ( Genesis 18:1 );And it can get awfully hot.And he lifted up his eyes and he looked, and, behold, there were three men who stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and he bowed himself down toward the ground, and he said, My Lord, Adonay, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Let a little water, I... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 18:1-33

Genesis 18:1. The plains, or the oak, of Mamre, which became a far-famed place, because of Abraham’s intercourse with the heavenly guests. Genesis 18:2. Three men. The manners of the east, and the ancient rule of hospitality, are here exemplified. Strangers of rank and decency were often entertained as friends, while common travellers lodged in sheltered places of the streets. Genesis 19:2. Judges 19:18. These visitors were standing over against him. When a traveller visits an Indian... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 18:22-33

Genesis 18:22-33Abraham stood yet before the LordAbraham’s intercession for SodomThe intercession of Abraham is the first prayer that the Bible records; and in its great characteristics, human and spiritual, it is one of the most remarkable.It is the intercession of a good man, a friend of God, for men who, in their wickedness and their defiance of God, had well-nigh approached the utmost possibilities of human evil. I. A MAN’S PRAISE POWER IS NOT AN ARBITRARY THING; IT IS THE RESULT OF LONG... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 18:32

Genesis 18:32I will not destroy it for ten’s sakeThe incalculable worth of good menThis narrative teaches--1.The highest development of genuine philanthropy. Importunate intercession with Heaven on behalf of humanity. 2. The mysterious power of intercessory prayer. 3. The incalculable worth of good men, however few in number. I. That good men in a community, however few, are HIGHLY ESTEEMED OF GOD. 1. Because of the tender relationship they sustain to Him. His children. 2. Because of the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 18:32

Gen 18:32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten’s sake. Ver. 32. Peradventure ten shall be found there. ] Lo, all the slavery and misery they had sustained hath not yet made ten good men in those five bad cities. Till God strike the stroke, and work upon the heart, afflictions, God’s hammers, do but beat upon cold iron. The wicked are no whit better by them, but much the... read more

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