Verse 17
17. He said Does Jehovah himself now appear again with the two angels, or is one of the two angels here intended? Either view is possible, but perhaps the more simple and obvious one is, that it is here one of the two angels that speaks . The angel’s words breathe with a quivering energy .
Note the four commands: 1)
Escape for thy life It is a race for life . 2)
Look not behind thee One backward look may prove thy ruin . 3)
Neither stay thou in all the plain All this fair circle of the Jordan, (Genesis 13:10,) on which Lot had cast covetous eyes, was now a doomed field, from which he must get himself utterly away . 4)
Escape to the mountain The mountains of Moab, on the east of the Dead Sea, were probably intended . Away to the hills must he now betake himself for safety who once left the hills for this attractive valley . The escape, escape, repeated twice, intensifies the thought of his imminent peril, and now it is added:
Lest thou be consumed Deadly destruction and wrath hover over all the plain .
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