Genesis 19:6-16

6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him,

7 and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.

8 "Now behold, ¹I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever * you like *; only do nothing * to these men, inasmuch * * as they have come under the shelter of my roof."

9 But they said, "Stand aside." Furthermore, they said, "This one came in as an alien, and already ²he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them." So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door.

10 But ³the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

11 ⁴They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.

12 Then the two men said to Lot, "Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever * you have in the city, bring them out of the place;

13 for we are about to destroy this place, because ⁵their outcry has become so great before the LORD that ⁶the LORD has sent us to destroy it."

14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, "Up, ⁷get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city." ⁸But he appeared * to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

15 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."

16 But he hesitated. So the men ⁹seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for ¹⁰the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside * the city.

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Genesis 19:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 19

The contents of this chapter are Lot's entertainment of two angels that came to Sodom, Ge 19:1-3; the rude behaviour of the men of Sodom towards them, who for it were smote with blindness, Ge 19:4-11; the deliverance of Lot, his wife and two daughters, by means of the angels he entertained, Ge 19:12-17; the sparing of the city of Zoar at the entreaty of Lot, to which he was allowed to flee, Ge 19:18-22; the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, Ge 19:23-25; Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt for looking back, Ge 19:26; Abraham's view of the conflagration of the cities, Ge 19:28,29; Lot's betaking himself to a mountain, and dwelling in a cave with his two daughters, by whom he had two sons, the one called Moab, and the other Benammi, Ge 19:30-38.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

1. Judges 19:24
2. Exodus 2:14
3. Genesis 19:1
4. Deuteronomy 28:28, 29; 2 Kings 6:18; Acts 13:11
5. Genesis 18:20
6. Leviticus 26:30-33; Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 28:45; 1 Chronicles 21:15
7. Numbers 16:21, 45; Revelation 18:4
8. Jeremiah 43:1, 2
9. Deuteronomy 5:15; Deuteronomy 6:21; Deuteronomy 7:8; 2 Peter 2:7
10. Exodus 34:7; Psalms 32:10; Psalms 33:18, 19

Footnotes 12

[a]. I.e. had intercourse
[b]. Lit "as is good in your sight"
[c]. Lit "shadow"
[d]. Lit "to sojourn"
[e]. Lit "the man, against Lot"
[f]. Lit "hand"
[g]. Lit "to"
[h]. Lit "smote"
[i]. Or "had married;" lit "were taking"
[j]. Lit "like one who was jesting"
[k]. Or "iniquity"
[l]. Lit "hand"