Genesis 19:9-14 NIV

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:9

And they said, stand back ,.... Turn on one side, get away from the door, that we may come to it: and they said again : to one another: this one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge ; this one man, and he a stranger and sojourner, no freeman or citizen of this city, sets himself against the whole body of the inhabitants, and takes upon him to judge what is right and wrong to be done; and if he is let alone in "judging he will judge" F13 ישפט שפוט ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:10

But the men put forth their hand ,.... They came to the door, and opened it, and put out their hands, one on one side the door, and the other on the other: and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door ; and thus they rescued Lot from the fury and rage of the men of Sodom, and prevented his daughters being exposed unto them, as he had offered. This action showed them to be more than men, that they should open the door, take in Lot, and shut it so suddenly, that the men of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:11

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great ,.... with "blindnesses" F14 בסנורים "caecitatibus", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; with extreme blindness, with blindness both of eye and heart, as Aben Ezra interprets it; and indeed had they not been given up to a judicial blindness and hardness of heart, such a stroke upon them might have convinced them that their ways were evil, and their works not right, and that by them they had... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:12

And the men said unto Lot ,.... When they had got him into the house again, they began to make themselves known unto him, and to acquaint him with the business they came to do: hast thou here any besides ? which they ask not as being ignorant, though angels know not everything relative to men, but to show their great regard to Lot, who had been so kind to them, and so careful of them; that for his sake they would save them all, if they would take the benefit of their protection, and in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:13

For we will destroy this place ,.... Or "we are destroying it" F16 משחתים אנחנו "disperdentes nos", Montanus; "nos perdituri mox sumus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so Drusius, Schmidt. , are about to do it, and will quickly and immediately do it: because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord ; the cry of the sins of the inhabitants of it, which were many, and openly, and daringly committed, and reached to heaven, and called for immediate vengeance... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:14

And Lot went out ,.... From his house, after the men of Sodom were gone from it, and before the morning, very probably about midnight: and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters : according to Aben Ezra, he had two other daughters that perished in Sodom, which he gathers from Genesis 19:15 , "which are here", as if he had some elsewhere; and so Jarchi says, he had two daughters married in the city. And the Jewish writers F17 Pirke Eliezer, c. 25. speak of one of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:9

And he will needs be a judge - So his sitting in the gate is perhaps a farther proof of his being there in a magisterial capacity, as some have supposed. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:11

And they smote the men - with blindness - This has been understood two ways: The angels, by the power which God had given them, deprived these wicked men of a proper and regular use of their sight, so as either totally to deprive them of it, or render it so confused that they could no longer distinguish objects; or, 2. They caused such a deep darkness to take place, that they could not find Lot's door. The author of the book of The Wisdom of Solomon was evidently of this latter opinion,... read more

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 19:11

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