John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 18:26
If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city ,.... Sodom is particularly mentioned because Lot dwelt there, and being the metropolis, and the city of greatest note, as Jarchi observes, it is put for the rest; and the sense is, if fifty righteous persons could be found in all the five cities, mercy should be shown them: then will I spare all the place for their sakes ; not Sodom only, but the whole country, of which Sodom was the chief; the Lord takes up and agrees to the number... read more
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