Chuàngshìjì 18:24

24 Jiǎ ruò nà chéng lǐ yǒu wǔ shí gè yì rén , nǐ hái chāo miè nà dìfang ma . bú wéi chéng lǐ zhè wǔ shí gè yì rén raóshù qízhōng de rén ma .

Chuàngshìjì 18:24 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 18:24

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city
Within the Pentapolis, which consisted of five cities; and so ten righteous persons are supposed to be in each, as Jarchi observes, agreeably to the Targum of Jonathan;

``perhaps there may be fifty righteous persons in the city who pray before thee, ten for every city, answerable to the five cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar:''

wilt thou also destroy, and not spare the place for the fifty
righteous that [are] therein?
here Abraham becomes an advocate and intercessor for all the inhabitants of the place, even the wicked, that they might not be destroyed, but spared and be delivered from impending ruin, for the sake of the fifty righteous among them; before he seemed only concerned for the righteous, lest they should perish with the rest, and that some method might be found out and taken to distinguish them from them; but here he expresses himself in favour of the wicked also, that they might be spared, provided such a number of righteous ones was found among them.

Chuàngshìjì 18:24 In-Context

22 Èr rén zhuǎn shēn líkāi nàli , xiàng Suǒduōmǎ qù . dàn Yàbólāhǎn réngjiù zhàn zaì Yēhéhuá miànqián .

23 Yàbólāhǎn jìn qián lái , shuō , wúlùn shàn ĕ , nǐ dōu yào chāo miè ma .

24 Jiǎ ruò nà chéng lǐ yǒu wǔ shí gè yì rén , nǐ hái chāo miè nà dìfang ma . bú wéi chéng lǐ zhè wǔ shí gè yì rén raóshù qízhōng de rén ma .

25 Jiàng yì rén yù ĕ rén tóng shā , jiāng yì rén yǔ ĕ rén yíyàng kàndaì , zhè duàn bú shì nǐ suǒ xíng de . shĕnpàn quán dì de zhǔ , qǐbù xíng gōngyì ma .

26 Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒ ruò zaì Suǒduōmǎ chéng lǐ jiàn yǒu wǔ shí gè yì rén , wǒ jiù wéi tāmende yuángù raóshù nà dìfang de zhòngrén .