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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Genesis 13:13

Sinners before, &c. That is, truly, without restraint or disguise. Lot might not have been acquainted with their dissolute morals, when he made this choice; in which however he consulted only his senses, and looked for temporal advantages, which ended in sorrow. This God permitted for a warning to us; and to restrain the Sodomites, by the example of Lot's justice, contrasted with the abominable lives. (Haydock) --- Ezechiel xvi. 49, explains the causes of their wickedness.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 13:13. _THE MEN OF SODOM WERE WICKED_] רעים _raim_, from רע, _ra, to break in pieces, destroy_, and _afflict_; meaning persons who broke the established order of things, destroyed and c...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Abram and Lot Separate 7. פרזי _perı̂zı̂y_, Perizzi, “descendant of Paraz.” פרז _pārāz_, “leader,” or inhabitant of the plain or open country. 10. ככר _kı̂kar_, “circle, border, vale, cake, talen...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 13 THE RETURN FROM EGYPT AND SEPARATION FROM LOT _ 1. Back to Bethel (Genesis 13:1)_ 2. The strife (Genesis 13:5) 3. The separation. Lot in Sodom (Genesis 13:8) 4. The third communication...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENESIS 13. THE SEPARATION OF ABRAHAM AND LOT. In the main from J, as is shown by the frequent mention of Yahweh, the reference to the garden of Yahweh, the preparation for the story of Sodom's overth...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    THE MEN OF SODOM WERE WICKED. "Lot had fallen into the very vortex of vice and blasphemy. The vices which prevailed have made 'Sodom' the synonym of the most degrading and brutal crimes in society. T...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    A parenthetical statement to show the nature of Lot's choice. Figure of speech. _Parenthesis._ App-6. WICKED AND SINNERS. very wicked sinners. Figure of speech. _Hendiadys._...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MEN OF SODOM—SINNERS BEFORE THE LORD— i.e.. Very great sinners in his sight, who cannot be deceived, see ch. Genesis 10:9. The Chaldee paraphrase renders it: "They put their riches to an iniquitous us...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART TWENTY-SEVEN THE STORY OF ABRAHAM: ABRAHAM AND LOT (Gen., chs. 13, 14) _1. The Biblical Account (ch. 13_) _And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with hi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT THE MEN OF SODOM WERE WICKED AND SINNERS BEFORE THE LORD EXCEEDINGLY._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HISTORY OF ABRAHAM At this point the specific purpose of the writer of the Pentateuch begins to appear more clearly. Speaking generally, that purpose is to trace the development of the kingdom of...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 13 ABRAM AND LOT SEPARATE V1 So Abram left Egypt. He took his wife. He took everything that he had. And Lot went with him. They went into the Nege...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LOT DWELLED IN THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN. — Heb., _of the Ciccar._ Not as yet within their walls, but in their neighbourhood, and evidently with a longing “toward Sodom,” where, in Genesis 19, we find h...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אַנְשֵׁ֣י סְדֹ֔ם רָעִ֖ים וְ חַטָּאִ֑ים לַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    LOT'S SEPARATION FROM ABRAM Genesis 13:1 ABRAM left Egypt thinking meanly of himself, highly of God. This humble frame of mind is disclosed in the route he chooses; he went straight back "unto the pl...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ABRAM AND LOT PART Genesis 13:1 The patriarch, like a restored backslider, made his way back to the old spot, on the highlands of Bethel, where his first tent and altar had stood. Through his wanderi...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Thus, delivered by the divine intervention, Abram set his face again toward the line of the divine purpose and returned to Bethel. In this act is seen the victory of faith over failure. It was at this...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and (i) sinners before the LORD exceedingly. (i) Lot thinking to get paradise, found hell....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._But the men of Sodom_. Lot thought himself happy that so rich a habitation had fallen to his share: but he learns at length, that the choice to which he had hastened, with a rashness equal to his...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. After this (chap. 13) we have, in the conduct of Abram and Lot, the disinterestedness and self-renunciation of true faith on the one hand, and, on...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THE MEN OF SODOM [WERE] WICKED,.... Which either he knew not, and so ignorantly made this bad choice, to take up his abode among such very wicked men, which occasioned a great deal of grief, troub...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. Ver. 13. _But the men of Sodom were wicked, &c._] See their chief sins set down, Ezekiel 16:49,50. The Chaldee Paraphrast h...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Abram and Lot returne out of Egypt. 7 By disagreement they part asunder. 10 Lot goeth to wicked Sodom. 14 God renueth the promise to Abram. 18 He remoueth to Hebron, and there buildeth an Altar....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. This remark, which ascribes to the inhabitants of Sodom a wickedness in unusual measure, even in the midst of heathendom, not...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    LOT'S CHOICE; THE SEPARATION...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SECOND SECTION _Abram as a witness for God in Canaan, and his self-denying separation from Lot. The New Promise of God. His altar in Hain (oaks) Mamre_ GENESIS 13:1-18 1And Abram went up out of Egyp...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    RECOVERY At last Abram "went up," leaving Egypt behind and coming into the south of the land of Canaan. Again Lot is mentioned as accompanying his uncle Abram. But Abram had been greatly enriched in E...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-13 Abram having offered Lot the choice, he at once accepted it. Passion and selfishness make men rude. Lot looked to the goodness of the land; therefore he doubted not that in such a fruitful soil...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Eminent, noted, and impudent sinners; see GENESIS 18:20 EZEKIEL 16:49; which is here added as a secret reproof to Lot, who was either careless in his inquiry into the dispositions and manners of those...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The opening of this chapter presents to us a subject of immense interest to the heart, namely, the true character of divine restoration. When the child of God has, in any way, declined in his spiritua...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 13:13 men H582 Sodom H5467 exceedingly H3966 wicked H7451 sinful H2400 LORD H3068 But the -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of ‘the Circle' and moved his tent as far as Sodom. Now the men of Sodom were wicked and great sinners against Yahweh.' There is no doub...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 13:10 That Lot was a good man in the ground of his character there is no reason to doubt. But good men have their besetting sins. Lot's was worldliness, and it cost him dear. I. Consider some...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Abram's return to the land and the altar. Separation from Lot. Lots backsliding and choice of the land. CHARACTERS: Abram, Lot. CONCLUSION: Material blessings are often accompanied by mora...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 13:2. _Very rich._ Here is another proof of God's fidelity in fulfilling his promises to Abraham. This has often been the lot of faithful men. Genesis 13:9. _Separate thyself._ Generous action...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 13:1 Expelled from Egypt, Abram retraces his steps northward, through the Negeb, back to the hill country between Bethel and Ai where he had previously built an altar (Genesis...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 13:11 Lot’s decision to settle AMONG THE CITIES OF THE VALLEY brings him into the vicinity of Sodom. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 13:10. Jordan] The first reference to this river—the only one in the country which flows through the entire summer.—PLAIN OF JORDAN] Lit. _the circle of Jordan_—the environs....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 13:10 AND LOT LIFTED UP HIS EYES. _Circumspexit_;_ _with a look of eager, lustful greed (cf. Genesis 3:6). The same expression is afterwards used of Abram ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thirteenth chapter of the book of Genesis. In chapter twelve, we find that Abraham had gone down into Egypt because of the famine. And there as the result of a lack of faith and trust in God to take c...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    But the. Genesis 15:16 Genesis 18:20 Genesis 19:4 #ff. 1 Samuel 15:18 Isai

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    ABRAM AND LOT Genesis 13:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us bring before you the "as" and "so" of the Lord's Return. The days of Lot are likened unto the days of the Coming of the Son of Man. Our Lord di...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Sinners before the Lord — That is, impudent daring sinners....

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