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- 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...
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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
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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...
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The men reach Sodom at even, and Lot, sitting as was customary in the
spacious city gate, invites them, with the same courtesy and
hospitality as his uncle, to stay the night in his house. They at
fir...
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BLINDNESS. Produced by dazzlings of light. Figure of speech
_Heterosis_ (of Noun). Plural put for sing, only here and 2 Kings
6:18; 2 Kings 6:9 instances of people so smitten (see App-10). See
Genesis...
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_blindness_ An unusual word for "blindness," inflicted as a sudden
temporary visitation, used here and 2 Kings 6:18. LXX ἀορασία....
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AND THEY SMOTE, &C.— Lot being in great danger, the angels, by their
superior power, rescued him from the mad multitude without, whom they
_smote with blindness,_ that is, with such a dimness and conf...
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2. _The Violence of the Sodomites_ (Genesis 19:4-11)
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of
Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people
from every qu...
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_AND THEY SMOTE THE MEN THAT WERE AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE WITH
BLINDNESS, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT: SO THAT THEY WEARIED THEMSELVES TO
FIND THE DOOR._
Smote ... with blindness х_ BACANWEERIYM_ (H5575)]...
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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...
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BLINDNESS] probably confused or indistinct vision: cp. 2 Kings 6:18....
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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...
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‘The men became blind.’ This probably does not mean that they
could not see. But they could not understand what they saw. The
*Hebrew word is not the usual *Hebrew word that means ‘blind’. The
Bible u...
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BLINDNESS. — This word occurs elsewhere only in 2 Kings 6:18, and in
both cases it is plain that actual blindness is not meant. Had the men
here been struck with blindness they would not have wearied...
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וְֽ אֶת ־הָ אֲנָשִׁ֞ים אֲשֶׁר
־פֶּ֣תַח הַ
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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...
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ANGELS WITH LOT IN SODOM
Genesis 19:1
This chapter withdraws the veil from the ministry of angels. The Lord
of Angels stayed with Abraham on the heights. He also, in future ages,
was to descend into...
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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...
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GOD'S JUDGMENT
Lot stood outside his house and pled with the men of Sodom. He would
not turn over his guests to them. He even offered them his virgin
daughters rather than have them sin against his v...
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And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with
blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to
find the door.
Perhaps such blindness as that mentioned; 2 Kings 6:18...
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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...
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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,...
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AND THEY SMOTE THE MEN THAT [WERE] AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE WITH
BLINDNESS, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT,.... with "blindnesses" n; with
extreme blindness, with blindness both of eye and heart, as Aben Ezra
i...
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And they smote the men that [were] at the door of the house with
blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to
find the door.
Ver. 11. _With blindness._] _Subito scotomate_, sai...
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_And they smote the men with blindness_ This was designed to put an
end to their attempt, and to be an earnest of their utter ruin the
next day....
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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...
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And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with
blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to
find the door. The angels interfered when the danger was at its
heigh...
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The Esvil Intention of the Sodomites...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THEY SMOTE THE MEN, Heb. _with blindness, _ i.e. with a blindness both
of body and mind. It was not a total blindness, as if they quite lost
the use of their eyes, for they saw the house, though not t...
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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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Genesis 19:11 struck H5221 (H8689) men H582 doorway H6607 house H1004
blindness H5575 small H6996 great H1419 weary
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‘And they smote the men who were at the door of the house with
blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to
find the door.'
Perhaps it was a temporary blindness brought on by an...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to
them, and shut to the door_
THE EVE OF JUDGMENT TO SINNERS
I. THEIR WICKEDNESS IS UNABATED.
1. It extends to all classes of the c...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 19:5. That we may know them.] A well-known euphemism for a
foul crime which derives its name from this infamous place. “From
Leviticus 22-25 we learn that the practice of the...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 19:1
AND THERE CAME TWO ANGELS—literally, _the two angels_, _i.e._ the
two men of the preceding chapter who accompanied Jehovah to Mature;
οἱ δύο ἄγγελλοι (LXX.)—TO SODOM AT EV...
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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...
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with blindness. 2 Kings 6:18 Acts 13:11 that they. Ecclesiastes 10:15
Isaiah 57:10...
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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...
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And they smote the men with blindness — This was designed to put an
end to their attempt, and to be an earnest of their utter ruin the
next day....