Genesis 19:1-25

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:7

And said, I pray you, brethren ,.... Not by family or nation, for the Sodomites were of the race of Ham, in the line of Canaan, and Lot was a descendant of Shem, in the line of Arphaxad; nor by religion, for the one were idolaters, and the other a worshipper of the true God, but by community of nature; and especially he called them so by reason of their having been neighbours considerable time, and on the score of friendship, see 1 Kings 9:13 ; and with this soft and loving language Lot... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:8

Behold now, I have two daughters, which have not known man ,.... Though some think they were espoused to men, but had not yet cohabited with them, see Genesis 19:14 , let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes ; this was a very great evil in Lot to make such an offer of his daughters; it was contrary to parental love and affection, an exposing the chastity of his daughters, which should have been his care to preserve; nor had he a power to... read more

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 19:15

And when the morning arose ,.... When it was break of day, for as yet the sun was not risen, nor did it rise until Lot got to Zoar, Genesis 19:23 . He was now returned from his sons-in-law, and by this time it began to be light: then the angels hastened Lot ; urged him to get out of his house as fast as he could: saying, arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here ; from whence Aben Ezra, and others, have concluded, as has been observed, that he had other daughters... read more

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