Genesis 19:4-31

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 19:4-11

Now it appeared, beyond contradiction, that the cry of Sodom was no louder than there was cause for. This night's work was enough to fill the measure. For we find here, I. That they were all wicked, Gen. 19:4. Wickedness had become universal, and they were unanimous in any vile design. Here were old and young, and all from every quarter, engaged in this riot; the old were not past it, and the young had soon come up to it. Either they had no magistrates to keep the peace, and protect the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 19:12-14

We have here the preparation for Lot's deliverance. I. Notice is given him of the approach of Sodom's ruin: We will destroy this place, Gen. 19:13. Note, The holy angels are ministers of God's wrath for the destruction of sinners, as well as of his mercy for the preservation and deliverance of his people. In this sense, the good angels become evil angels, Ps. 78:49. II. He is directed to give notice to his friends and relations, that they, it they would, might be saved with him (Gen. 19:12):... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 19:15-23

1. With what a gracious violence Lot was brought out of Sodom, Gen. 19:16. It seems, though he did not make a jest of the warning given, as his sons-in-law did, yet he lingered, he trifled, he did not make so much haste as the case required. Thus many that are under some convictions about the misery of their spiritual state, and the necessity of a change, yet defer that needful work, and foolishly linger. Lot did so, and it might have been fatal to him it the angels had not laid hold of his... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 19:24-25

Then, when Lot had got safely into Zoar, then this ruin came; for good men are taken away from the evil to come. Then, when the sun had risen bright and clear, promising a fair day, then this storm arose, to show that it was not from natural causes. Concerning this destruction observe, 1. God was the immediate author of it. It was destruction from the Almighty: The Lord rained?from the Lord (Gen. 19:24), that is, God from himself, by his own immediate power, and not in the common course of... read more

Matthew Henry

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 19:30-38

Here is, I. The great trouble and distress that Lot was brought into after his deliverance, Gen. 19:30. 1. He was frightened out of Zoar, durst not dwell there; probably because he was conscious to himself that it was a refuge of his own choosing and that herein he had foolishly prescribed to God, and therefore he could not but distrust his safety in it; or because he found it as wicked as Sodom, and therefore concluded it could not long survive it; or perhaps he observed the rise and increase... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:4

But before they lay down ,.... Upon their beds to sleep; it was between supper time and bedtime that the following affair happened, while the angels were talking to Lot about the men of Sodom, and inquiring what sort of men they were, as the Jewish writers F12 Bereshit Rabba, ut supra. (sect. 50. fol. 44. 4.) suggest: the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round about ; the house of Lot, where the angels were: both old and young : the males of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:5

And they called unto Lot ,.... With a loud voice, that he might hear, they being in the street, and he within doors; and perhaps there might be a court before his house, through which there was a passage up to it, as seems from Genesis 19:6 , and said unto him, where are the men which came in to thee this night ? for though they were angels, they appeared like men, and they seemed to be so to them who saw them go into Lot's house: bring them out unto us, that we may know them ; not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:6

And Lot went out at the door unto them ,.... At the door of his house: and shut the door after him ; the door of the passage to his house, the courtyard door, for another word is here used; unless the one was properly the door, and the other a hatch: however, this precaution of shutting it was used to prevent the men of Sodom rushing in, and taking away the men by violence; and that Lot might have some opportunity of trying what he could do by arguments, to prevail upon them to desist... read more

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