Genesis 19:29

29 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God ¹remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

Genesis 19:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 19:29

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the
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Not when he had destroyed them, but when he was about to destroy them; for Lot was sent out from them, and delivered out of them, before they were destroyed; and therefore Noldius rightly renders the words, "before God destroyed" ^F13 them:

that God remembered Abraham;
his promise to him, that he would bless them that blessed him, ( Genesis 12:3 ) ; and his prayer to him for Lot in ( Genesis 18:23-32 ) ; for, though he does not mention him by name, he bore him on his heart, and he was always in the number of the righteous ones, on whose account he interceded for the sparing of the cities; and, though God did not hear and answer him with regard to the cities, yet he did with respect to the righteous men in them:

and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow;
by two angels, who took him by the hand and brought him out of Sodom, now overthrown:

when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt;
that is, in one of which Lot dwelt, namely, Sodom, as Aben Ezra rightly observes, comparing the passage with ( Judges 12:7 ) ; unless it can be thought that Lot first dwelt in one of those cities and then in another, and first and last in them all, which is not very likely.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (txvb) "antequam perderet", Nold. Ebr. concord. partic. p. 144. No. 679.

Genesis 19:29 In-Context

27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

28 And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

29 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

30 Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

31 And the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

Cross References

• 1. See Genesis 8:1