Genesis 19:2

_AND HE SAID, BEHOLD NOW, MY LORDS, TURN IN, I PRAY YOU, INTO YOUR SERVANT'S HOUSE, AND TARRY ALL NIGHT, AND WASH YOUR FEET, AND YE SHALL RISE UP EARLY, AND GO ON YOUR WAYS. AND THEY SAID, NAY; BUT WE WILL ABIDE IN THE STREET ALL NIGHT._ My lords, turn in - [Hebrew, _ 'ªDONAY_ (H113)]. This is the only passage where the word is coupled with a plural verb. TARRY ALL NIGHT. Here is an offer of the same generous hospitalities as described in the preceding chapter, and which are still spontaneously practiced in the small towns. NAY; BUT WE WILL ABIDE IN THE STREET ALL NIGHT. Where there are no inns, and travelers have no acquaintance, it is not uncommon for them to sleep in the street, wrapped up in their cloaks. Strangers frequently decline the first offer of an invitation in the same way as the angels did, until hospitality is pressed upon them....

2._Nay, but we will abide in the street_. The angels do not immediately assent, in order that they may the more fully investigate the disposition of the holy man. For he was about to bring them to his own house, not merely for the sake of supplying them with a supper, but for the purpose of defending them from the force and injury of the citizens. Therefore the angels act, as if it were safe to sleep on the highway; and thus conceal their knowledge of the abandoned wickedness of the whole people. For if the gates of cities are shut, to prevent the incursions of wild beasts and of enemies; how wrong and absurd it is that they who are within should be exposed to still more grievous dangers? Therefore the angels thus speak, in order to make the wickedness of the people appear the greater. And Lot, in urging the angels to come unto him, for the purpose of protecting them from the common viol...

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 lingered; he trifled. Thus many who are under convictions about their spiritual state, and the necessity of a change, defer that needful work. The salvation of the most righteous men is of God's mercy, not by their own merit. We are saved by grace. God's power also must be acknowledged in bringing souls out of a sinful state If God had not been merciful to us, our lingering had been our ruin. Lot must flee for his life. He must not hanker after Sodom. Such commands as these are given to those who, through grace, are delivered out of a sinful state and condition. Return not to sin and Satan. Rest not in self and the world. Reach toward Christ and heaven, for that is escaping to the mountain, short o...

Verse Genesis 19:2. _NAY; BUT WE WILL ABIDE IN THE STREET_] Instead of לא _lo,_ nay, some MSS. have לו lo, to him; "And they said _unto him_, for we lodge in the street." where, nevertheless, the negation is understood. Knowing the disposition of the inhabitants, and appearing in the mere character of travellers, they preferred the open street to any house; but as Lot pressed them vehemently, and they knew him to be a righteous man, not yet willing to make themselves known, they consented to take shelter under his hospitable roof. Our Lord, willing for the time being to conceal his person from the knowledge of the disciples going to Emmaus, made as though he would go farther, Luke 24:13; but at last, like the angels here, yielded to the importunity of his disciples, and went into their lodgings....

- 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 vision. 37. מואב _mô'āb_, Moab; מאב _mē'āb_, “from a father.” בן־עמי _ben_-_‛amı̂y_, Ben-‘ammi, “son of my people.” עמון _‛__amôn_, ‘Ammon, “of the people.” This chapter is the continuation and conclusion of the former. It records a part of God’s strange work - strange, because it consists in

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 EVEN (having left the tent of Abraham shortly after noon); AND LOT—last heard of in the narrative as captured by the Asiatic kings, and delivered by his uncle (Genesis 14:12, Genesis 14:16)—SAT IN THE GATE OF SODOM. שַׁעַר, from the idea of opening, signified the gateway or entrance of a camp (Exodus 32:26,...

AND HE SAID, BEHOLD NOW, MY LORDS,.... Taking them to be, and bespeaking them as persons of quality, who appeared with majesty in their countenances, and looked as if they had been well brought up, and were upon their travels; not knowing them to be angels, whom he received and entertained unawares, as the apostle, referring to Lot and Abraham, observes, Hebrews 13:2; TURN IN, I PRAY YOU, INTO YOUR SERVANT'S HOUSE; meaning himself, who was their humble servant, and entreats them to turn in to his house, which perhaps was hard by, and take up their lodging with him: the ancient Jews k give the sense of the phrase thus, go a roundabout, winding, crooked way to my house, that the men of Sodom may not see you go in there, and know you are there. This is taken from the signification of the word to "turn in", which in a different construction signifies to decline, to go back; an

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 sons-in-law (Genesis 19:14) 5. Lot brought forth (Genesis 19:15) 6. Lot's request (Genesis 19:18) 7. The escape (Genesis 19:2

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 first refuse, saying that they will pass the night in the city square. Although this was no special privation, Lot urges his offer, all the more perhaps because he knew the character of the citizens, who, before his guests retired, without exception justified their vile reputation. Lot faced them bravely and alone, pleading with them to desist from the outrage they meditated, and proffering his two virgin daughters to glut their lust. His plea only angered them as coming from an alien, but the men rescued him from their violence, and baffled their attempt on the door by blindness, apparently a form of perverted vision which prevented them from finding it. 1. THE TWO ANGELS: substituted for the...

MY LORDS. Plural of _Adon._ IN THE STREET. Figure of speech _Peristasis._...