Genesis 19:6

_AND LOT WENT OUT AT THE DOOR UNTO THEM, AND SHUT THE DOOR AFTER HIM,_ Lot went out at the door unto them. Hospitality was considered a sacred duty, and imposed upon a host the obligation of protecting the lives of his guests at all hazards. But the offer made by Lot was so extreme as plainly shows that he had been thrown into a state of the most perturbed and agitated feeling, between fear of the popular violence and solicitude for the safety of the strangers that were under his roof. [It may be noticed that _ PETCHAAH_ (H6607) denotes the entrance or doorway, while _ DELET_ (H1817) means the door or valve, which is capable of being opened and shut.]...

6._And Lot went out at the door unto them_. It appears from the fact that Lot went out and exposed himself to danger, how faithfully he observed the sacred right of hospitality. It was truly a rare virtue, that he preferred the safety and honor of the guests whom he had once undertaken to protect, to his own life: yet this degree of magnanimity is required from the children of God, that where duty and fidelity are concerned, they should not spare themselves. And although he was already grievously injured by the besieging of his house; he yet endeavors, by gentle words, to soothe ferocious minds, while he suppliantly entreats them to lay aside their wickedness, and addresses them by the title of brethren. Now it appears, how savage was their cruelty, and how violent the rage of their lust, when they were in no degree moved by such extraordinary mildness. But the description of a rage so b...

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...

- 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 LOT WENT OUT AT THE DOOR UNTO THEM,.... At the door of his house: AND SHUT THE DOOR AFTER HIM; the door of the passage to his house, the courtyard door, for another word is here used; unless the one was properly the door, and the other a hatch: however, this precaution of shutting it was used to prevent the men of Sodom rushing in, and taking away the men by violence; and that Lot might have some opportunity of trying what he could do by arguments, to prevail upon them to desist from their attempt....

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...

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 quarter; 5 and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. 6 And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him. 7 And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 Be-hold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing, forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof. 9 And they said, Stand back. And they said, This One fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they p

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 treated they might still be spared. IN THE GATE] The entrance gate of walled Eastern cities is a great place of resort. In front of it the market was held and justice administered. See Ruth 4; 2 Samuel 15:2; Amos 5:10; Job 31:21; Deuteronomy 21:19;...