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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:29-38
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Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:1-29Genesis 19:1-29 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryLot 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…Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:27-29Genesis 19:27-29 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleOur communion with God consists in our gracious regard to him and his gracious regard to us; we have here therefore the communion that was between God and Abraham, in the event concerning Sodom, as before in the consult…The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:29Genesis 19:29 · The Pulpit CommentaryAnd it came to pass—not a pluperfect (Rosenmüller), as if a direct continuation of the preceding narrative, but a preterit, being the commencement of a new subdivision of the history in which the writer treats of Lot's…The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:29Genesis 19:29 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe last days of Lot. I. HAUNTED BY TERROR. 1. The terror of Divine judgment. The appalling spectacle of Sodom's overthrow had no doubt filled him with alarm. And so are God's judgments in the earth designed to put the…The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:29Genesis 19:29 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah I. THE VISIBLE JUDGMENT. "God overthrew the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah—the cities in which Lot dwelt." 1. The reason. 2. The instrumentality. 3. The reality. 4. The lessons o…
commentaryMatthew Henry on Genesis 19:1-29Lot 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…Matthew HenrycommentaryMatthew Henry on Genesis 19:27-29Our communion with God consists in our gracious regard to him and his gracious regard to us; we have here therefore the communion that was between God and Abraham, in the event concerning Sodom, as before in the consult…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:29The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah I. THE VISIBLE JUDGMENT. "God overthrew the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah—the cities in which Lot dwelt." 1. The reason. 2. The instrumentality. 3. The reality. 4. The lessons o…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:29And it came to pass—not a pluperfect (Rosenmüller), as if a direct continuation of the preceding narrative, but a preterit, being the commencement of a new subdivision of the history in which the writer treats of Lot's…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:29The last days of Lot. I. HAUNTED BY TERROR. 1. The terror of Divine judgment. The appalling spectacle of Sodom's overthrow had no doubt filled him with alarm. And so are God's judgments in the earth designed to put the…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Genesis 19:30-38See the peril of security. Lot, who kept chaste in Sodom, and was a mourner for the wickedness of the place, and a witness against it, when in the mountain, alone, and, as he thought, out of the way of temptation, is sh…Matthew HenrycommentaryLot's Disgrace. (b. c. 1898.)LOT'S DISGRACE. (B. C. 1898.) Here is, I. The great trouble and distress that Lot was brought into after his deliverance, Genesis 19:30. 1. He was frightened out of Zoar, durst not dwell there; probably because he was c…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 19:30And Lot went up out of Zoar (probably soon after), and dwelt in the mountain (i.e. of Moab, on the east of the Dead Sea), and his two daughters—step-daughters, it has been suggested, if Lot married a widow who was the m…Joseph S. Exell and contributors