27And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
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I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. …
And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-29)Our communion with God consists in our gracious regard to him and his gracious regard to us; we have here therefore the communion that was between God and Abraham, in the event concerning Sodom, as before in the consultation concerning it, for communion with God is to be kept up in providences as well as in ordinances. I. Here is Abraham’s pious regard to God in this event, in two things:—1. A car…
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