Génesis 19:4

4 pero antes de que se fueran a dormir, todos los hombres de Sodoma, tanto jóvenes como mayores, llegaron de todas partes de la ciudad y rodearon la casa.

Génesis 19:4 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 19:4

But before they lay down
Upon their beds to sleep; it was between supper time and bedtime that the following affair happened, while the angels were talking to Lot about the men of Sodom, and inquiring what sort of men they were, as the Jewish writers ^F12 suggest:

the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round
about;
the house of Lot, where the angels were:

both old and young:
the males of the city of every age; some that were past committing the sin they were so infamous for, as well as those that burned with that unnatural lust; some that could not be actors were willing to be spectators; and all were curious to see the lovely persons, that it was reported all over the city were seen to go into Lot's house:

all the people from every quarter;
all from one end of the city to the other, and from every corner in it: which shows the general corruption and depravity of the city, that it was so far from having ten righteous persons in it, that of the proper inhabitants of it, there was not, as Jarchi notes, one righteous person, no, not one.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Bereshit Rabba, ut supra. (sect. 50. fol. 44. 4.)

Génesis 19:4 In-Context

2 —Señores míos —dijo él—, vengan a mi casa para lavarse los pies, y sean mis huéspedes esta noche. Entonces mañana podrán levantarse temprano y seguir su camino.
—Oh, no —respondieron ellos—. Pasaremos la noche aquí, en la plaza de la ciudad.

3 Pero Lot insistió, y finalmente ellos fueron con él a su casa. Lot preparó un banquete para ellos, con pan sin levadura recién horneado, y ellos comieron;

4 pero antes de que se fueran a dormir, todos los hombres de Sodoma, tanto jóvenes como mayores, llegaron de todas partes de la ciudad y rodearon la casa.

5 Y le gritaron a Lot:
—¿Dónde están los hombres que llegaron para pasar la noche contigo? ¡Haz que salgan para que podamos tener sexo con ellos!

6 Entonces Lot salió de la casa para hablar con ellos y cerró la puerta detrás de sí.