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Genesis 19:16

But he lingered It was difficult for Lot to realize the immediate and overwhelming nature of the doom announced by his visitants. His feelings for home and its associations made him hesitate. The versions misunderstood the Heb.; LXX καὶ ἐταράχθησαν, Lat. dissimulante illo.

the Lord being merciful unto him An interesting clause, shewing that the men were agents of Jehovah's tenderness, as well as of His severity, cf. Psalms 34:22: does it not also imply that, in the original version of the narrative, Jehovah is here one of "the men"?

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 19:16. _WHILE HE LINGERED_] Probably in affectionate though useless entreaties to prevail on the remaining parts of his family to escape from the destruction that was now descending; _l...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    WHILE HE LINGERED. The crisis was imminent, and he seemed almost paralyzed, hence the "men" found it needful to hurry him, his wife, and two daughters who were unmarried and dwelt under his roof, by...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LINGERED. See Genesis 19:14....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND WHILE HE LINGERED— Alarmed at the apprehension of so terrible an event, shocked for the destruction of his relations and friends, and the inhabitants of this devoted city, Lot stood benumbed, as i...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _5. Lot's Deliverance (Genesis 19:12-17_) 12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND WHEN THE MORNING AROSE, THEN THE ANGELS HASTENED LOT, SAYING, ARISE, TAKE THY WIFE, AND THY TWO DAUGHTERS, WHICH ARE HERE; LEST THOU BE CONSUMED IN THE INIQUITY OF THE CITY._ The kindly interest...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘Lot delayed.’ Lot told people that they should leave the city. (See verse 14.) But he himself was unwilling to leave. He did not believe his own message. ‘The *Lord was saving them.’ He was saving t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND WHILE HE LINGERED. — Heb., _and he lingered._ Lot still clung to his wealth, and could not make up his mind to leave it, and so at length the angels took him by the hand and compelled him to quit...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַֽ יִּתְמַהְמָ֓הּ ׀ וַ יַּחֲזִ֨קוּ הָ אֲנָשִׁ֜ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SODOM AND GOMORRAH DESTROYED Genesis 19:12 It was a very weak nature that heaven was so eager to rescue. Though described as a _righteous_ man, Lot was a very weak one. He had pitched his tent toward...

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

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And while he (h) lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _He lingered, intreating the Lord to save the city; and loath, perhaps to lose all his property, for the sake of which he had chosen that abode. --- Spared him, and his wife and two daughters, for his...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed...

  • 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

    16_And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand. _The angels first urged him by words; now seizing him by the hand, and indeed with apparent violence, they compel him to depart. His tardines...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHILE HE LINGERED,.... Delayed going out of his house, either loath to leave his goods and substance behind him; or waiting to see whether his sons-in-law would come to him; or, as others, praying...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _While he lingered_ He did not make so much haste as the case required, and this would have been fatal to him, if the angels had not _laid hold on his hand, and brought him forth._ Herein _the Lord wa...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand and upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful unto him; and they brought him forth, and set him w...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Rescue of Lot...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE LINGERED, either through lothness to part with all his estate, or to lose his sons-in-law; or through astonishment and distraction of mind, which made him both listless and impotent....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 19:16 lingered H4102 (H8698) men H582 hold H2388 (H8686) hand H3027 wifes H802 hand H3027 hands...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But he hung back, and the men seized his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him, and brought him out and placed him outside the city.' Lot wa...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He lingered_ PERILOUS PROCRASTINATION I. I MUST BEGIN BY SPEAKING TO THE PERSON WHO IS LINGERING HIMSELF. I should like to ask you, my beloved friend, if this matter about which you are still hesita...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 19:16 HE LINGERED. Even Lot is slow to grasp the seriousness of the situation. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 19:12. Son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters.] “The mention of the son-in-law before the sons and daughters is somewhat surprising. _Lange_ has proposed to read thus: ‘H...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    lingered. Psalms 119:60 John 6:44 the Lord. Exodus 34:6 Numbers 14:18 De

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Tho' Lot did not make a jest of the warning as his sons — in — law, yet he lingered, he did not make so much haste as the case required. And it might have been fatal to him, if the angels had not laid...

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