Genesis 19:26-27 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 19:26

This also is written for our admonitio 4619 n. 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 righteous are warned not to turn from their righteousness. See Ezek. 3:18, 20. We have here, I. The sin of Lot's wife: She looked back from behind him. This seemed a small thing, but we are sure, by the punishment of it, that it was a great sin, and exceedingly sinful. 1.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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 consultation concerning it, for communion with God is to be kept up in providences as well as in ordinances. I. Here is Abraham's pious regard to God in this event, in two things:?1. A careful expectation of the event, Gen. 19:27. He got up early to look towards Sodom; and, to intimate... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:26

But his wife looked back from behind him ,.... That is, the wife of Lot, whose name the Jewish writers F24 Pirke Eliezer, c. 25. say was Adith, or as others Irith F25 Baal Hatturim in loc. ; and, according to the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, she was a native of Sodom: now, as they were going from Sodom to Zoar, she was behind Lot, his back was to her, so that he could not see her; this was a temptation to her to look back, since her husband could not see her; and this she... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:27

And Abraham got up early in the morning ,.... Perhaps he had had but little sleep the whole night, his thoughts being taken up with what was to befall the cities of the plain; and especially being in great concern for Lot and his family: to the place where he stood before the Lord ; Genesis 18:22 ; to the very spot of ground where he had stood the day before in the presence of the Lord, and had conversed with him, and prayed unto him; and so the Targum of Jonathan,"to the place where... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:26

She became a pillar of salt - The vast variety of opinions, both ancient and modern, on the crime of Lot's wife, her change, and the manner in which that change was effected, are in many cases as unsatisfactory as they are ridiculous. On this point the sacred Scripture says little. God had commanded Lot and his family not to look behind them; the wife of Lot disobeyed this command; she looked back from behind him - Lot, her husband, and she became a pillar of salt. This is all the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:27

Abraham gat up early in the morning - Anxious to know what was the effect of the prayers which he had offered to God the preceding day; what must have been his astonishment when he found that all these cities, with the plain which resembled the garden of the Lord, Genesis 13:10 , burnt up, and the smoke ascending like the smoke of a furnace, and was thereby assured that even God himself could not discover ten righteous persons in four whole cities! read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:26

Verse 26 26.But his wife looked back. Moses here records the wonderful judgment of God, by which the wife of Lot was transformed into a statue of salt. But under the pretext of this narrative, captious and perverse men ridicule Moses; for since this metamorphosis has no more appearance of truth, than those which Ovid has feigned, they boast that it is undeserving of credit. But I rather suppose it to have happened through the artifice of Satan, that Ovid, by fabulously trifling, has indirectly... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:27

Verse 27 27.And Abraham got up early in the morning. Moses now reverts to Abraham, and shows that he, by no means, neglected what he had heard from the mouth of the angel; for he relates that Abraham came to a place where he might see the judgment of God. For we must not suspect that (as we have lately said respecting Lot’s wife) he trusted more to his own eyes than to the word of God; and that he came to explore, because he was in doubt. But we rather infers from the text, that he, being... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 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 (literally, she was, conveying an idea of complete and instantaneous judgment) a pillar of salt . נְעִיב מֵלַח ; στήλη ἀλός ( LXX .); a statue or column of fossil salt, such as exists in the neighborhood of the Dead Sea. That she was literally... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 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 of an amiable weakness. In Lot's sons-in-law we see how the world receives the gospel (cf. Ezekiel 20:49 ; James 1:24 ). In his wife, one convinced, but not converted; seeking safety, but with a divided aim ( James 1:8 ). In the angel's help, God's watchful care, even... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 19:26

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 19:27-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:26

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:27

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 19:26

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 19:26

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