Genesis 19:21

21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

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Genesis 19:21 in Other Translations

KJV

21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

ESV

21 He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

NLT

21 “All right,” the angel said, “I will grant your request. I will not destroy the little village.

MSG

21 He said to him, "All right. If you insist. I'll let you have your way. And I won't stamp out the town you've spotted.

CSB

21 And he said to him, "All right, I'll grant your request about this matter too, and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.

Genesis 19:21 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 19:21

And he said unto him, see, I have accepted thee concerning
this thing also
Accepted thy prayer and granted thy request, as well as in other things; shown grace and mercy to thee: or, "have lifted up thy face" ^F5; alluding to the custom of the eastern countries, where persons, when they come into the presence of their superiors, used to prostrate their faces to the ground; when, as a token of their acceptance of them, and good will to them, they used to order them to be lifted up, or them to lift up their faces, and stand before them:

that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken;
for, though he had not in express words petitioned that the city might be spared, yet he had tacitly done it, insomuch as he had requested he might flee unto it, where he could not have been safe had it been destroyed.

FOOTNOTES:

F5 (Kynp ytavn) "suscepi faciem tuam", Pagninus, Moatanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Piscator.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 19:21 In-Context

19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.

20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”

21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar. )

23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.