All the plain, to wit, where these cities and their territories lay, called the plain of Jordan, Genesis 13:10; all which then became, and to this day continues, to be a filthy lake, called the Dead Sea, because no fish lives in it.
Verse Genesis 19:25. _AND HE OVERTHREW THOSE CITIES, AND ALL THE PLAIN_] This forms what is called the lake _Asphaltites, Dead Sea_, or _Salt Sea_, which, according to the most authentic accounts, is...
- The Destruction of Sodom and Amorah 9. גשׁ־הלאה gesh-hāl'âh, “approach to a distant point,” stand back. 11. סנורים _san__e__vērı̂ym_, “blindness,” affecting the mental more than the ocular visi...
CHAPTER 19 THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH _ 1. The angels visit (Genesis 19:1)_ 2. Lot and the Sodomites (Genesis 19:6) 3. The destruction of Sodom announced (Genesis 19:12) 4. Lot and his
The men have learnt all they need to know of Sodom's character, and tell Lot of its impending fate that he may be rescued with his household. His prospective sons-in-law (_mg.)_ do not heed his warnin...
GENESIS 12:1 TO GENESIS 25:18. THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. In this section the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main sources...
AND HE OVERTHREW THOSE CITIES AND ALL THE PLAIN. This language seems to point out physical changes in the plain, possibly its depression by earthquake forces, at the time of the catastrophe, until it...
OVERTHREW. These cities are not in the Dead Sea, but their ruins have been discovered by M. de Saulcy (called to-day _Kharbet-Goumran),_ about. miles square (_Journey round the Dead Sea,_ vol. ii, pp....
_and he overthrew_ The word used is the one regularly employed elsewhere in the O.T. where the overthrow of the cities is mentioned. Like the word _mabbul_for the Flood, so this word, "overthrow" (_ma...
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, &c. 24. _Then the Lord_, &c. The destruction of the cities of the Plain is an event to which frequent allusion is made in Holy Scripture. The impressive features...
THE LORD RAINED—FROM THE LORD— Houbigant asserts, and Calmet also is of the same opinion, that the _Jehovah_ here repeated refers to the _Father_ and the _Son:_ and so, says he, almost all the ancient...
7. _The Divine Judgment Executed_ (Genesis 19:23-29) 23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar. 24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah ou...
_THEN THE LORD RAINED UPON SODOM AND UPON GOMORRAH BRIMSTONE AND FIRE FROM THE LORD OUT OF HEAVEN;_ Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire. "Rained" is figuratively used...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 1. The visit of the two angels (who are 'the men' of Genesis 18) may be regarded as the final test of Sodom. If they were hospitably received and honourably...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 19 TWO *ANGELS GO TO SODOM V1 The two *angels reached Sodom in the evening. Lot sat at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he stood up. He went...
OVERTHREW. — This does not mean _submerged,_ and the agent in the destruction was fire and not water. “The plain” (Heb., _the Ciccar_) still existed, and when Abraham saw it, was wrapped in smoke....
וַֽ יַּהֲפֹךְ֙ אֶת ־הֶ עָרִ֣ים הָ אֵ֔ל
DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN Genesis 19:1 WHILE Abraham was pleading with the Lord the angels were pursuing their way to Sodom. And in doing so they apparently observed the laws of those hu...
LOT AND HIS DAUGHTERS RESCUED Genesis 19:24 God had mercy on Lot for Abraham's sake. A missionary told me that when, on writing home to his mother, he narrated his miraculous deliverance from an infu...
Here the story of the visit of Jehovah and the angels is continued. Here we see the two angels coming to Lot. By this time Lot had attained to a position of eminence in Sodom. The phrase, "sitting in...
LOT AND HIS FAMILY Any doubt one has about God keeping wicked under his protective care is removed by this story. The angels delivered Lot, his wife and their two daughters safely from the city before...
_All the inhabitants, both the body and soul, Jude ver. 7: even the infants would probably die in original sin, as their parents were unbelievers, and careless of applying the proper remedies. (Haydoc...
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. Numbers 34:12; Psalms 83:15. A standing monument of God's judgment! Deuter...
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...
Lot, in the following chapter, because of his connection with the heavenly man, depositary of God's counsels and wisdom, and intercessor, himself down in the plain of this world, which he had chosen,...
AND HE OVERTHREW THOSE CITIES,.... Of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim: very probably at the same time that this fiery tempest was in the heavens, there was an earthquake which overthrew the cities...
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. Ver. 25. _And he overthrew, &c._] Some footsteps of this overthrow are to...
Gen. 19:24-29. _Concerning the destruction of Sodom and the parts adjacent. _ The very ground of that region, great part of it, seems to have been burnt up. For it was in great measure made up of bitu...
_And he overthrew those cities_, and _all the inhabitants_ of them, _the plain_, and all that _grew upon the ground_ It was an utter ruin, and irreparable; that fruitful valley remains to this day a g...
1 Lot entertaineth two Angels. 4 The vicious Sodomites are striken with blindnesse. 12 Lot is sent for safety into the mountaines. 18 Hee obtaineth leaue to goe into Zoar. 24 Sodome and Gomorrah a...
And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. It was a total destruction of the people with their cities and all their p...
The destruction of the Cities of the Plain...
See Genesis 18:1 ff for the passage quote with footnotes. 3. _The entrance and sojourn of the two angels in Sodom, and the completed manifestation of its corruption in opposition to the better conduct...
SODOM'S WICKEDNESS EXPOSED Not in the heat of the day, but in the evening, the two angels arrived at Sodom. Lot was sitting in the gate, the place of a judge. He was a believer making an effort to con...
1-29 Lot was good, but there was not one more of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile. Care was therefore taken for saving Lot and his family. Lot lingere...
There are two methods which the Lord graciously adopts, in order to draw the heart away from this present world. The first is, by setting before it the attractiveness and stability of "things above....
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‘Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of heaven, and he overthrew those cities and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and all that grew on...
Genesis 19 Notice: I. Sodom's sinfulness. Her sins were committed amidst an unbounded flush of prosperity; they were committed amidst scenes of much natural loveliness, Nature being outraged before...
Genesis 19:12. _And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:_ Let me bid eve...
CONTENTS: Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot's backsliding and escape. CHARACTERS: Angels, Lot and family, Abraham, Moab, Benammi. CONCLUSION: No Christian can find his pleasure and profit in th...
Genesis 19:1. _Lot sat in the gate of Sodom,_ as a magistrate, no doubt, for the wicked accuse him of making himself a judge or elder. The main gate of a city was the usual place of hearing causes, an...
_Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven--_ THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM I. DIVINE JUDGMENT IS DISCRIMINATIVE. The Scripture will not have us fal...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 19:24 THE LORD RAINED ON SODOM AND GOMORRAH SULFUR AND FIRE FROM THE LORD OUT OF HEAVEN. This judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, the flood of chs....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 19:25. Those cities.] Besides Sodom and Gomorrah, other cities were involved in this destruction, the cities of Admah and Zeboim (Deuteronomy 29:23; Hosea 11:8), and all in th...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 19:12, GENESIS 19:13 AND THE MEN SAID UNTO LOT,—after the incident recorded in the preceding verses. Lot by this time had doubtless recognized their celestial character; accordingl...
Chapter nineteen of the book of Genesis deals with the destruction of the city of Sodom. The Lord came to Abraham and informed him of the fact that because of the wickedness of Sodom, it was necessary...
Genesis 13:10 Genesis 14:3 Psalms 107:34...
WHERE LOOKEST THOU Genesis 13:8; _Genesis 18:20; Genesis 19:25_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our Scripture today presents four looks toward Sodom. 1. There was the look of Lot, or the look of worldly adv
LOT FLEEING FROM SODOM Genesis 19:14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have before us one of the greatest conflagrations of all history, dual cities and their neighboring villages utterly consumed by fire sent...
ABRAHAM AND LOT CONTRASTED Genesis 19:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we enter into Genesis nineteen we are struck with many contrasts between it and Genesis eighteen. The eighteenth speaks of Abraham and t...
And he overthrew the cities, and all the inhabitants of them, the plain, and all that grew upon the ground — It was an utter ruin, and irreparable; that fruitful valley remains to this day a great lak...