12Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
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And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: …
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-13)We have here the choice that Lot made when he parted from Abram. Upon this occasion, one would have expected, 1. That he should have expressed an unwillingness to part from Abram, and that, at least, he should have done it with reluctancy. 2. That he should have been so civil as to have remitted the choice back again to Abram. But we find not any instance of deference or respect to his uncle in th…
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