Verse 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 and punishment:
and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it ; by which they discovered themselves to be angels, and what their business was, to destroy Sodom; and which confutes the notion of the Jews, that they were sent on different errands; whereas it is clear from hence, these two were sent to do one and the same thing; See Gill on Genesis 18:2 .
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