32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. …
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! …
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-38)Here is, I. The great trouble and distress that Lot was brought into after his deliverance, Gen. 19:30. 1. He was frightened out of Zoar, durst not dwell there; probably because he was conscious to himself that it was a refuge of his own choosing and that herein he had foolishly prescribed to God, and therefore he could not but distrust his safety in it; or because he found it as wicked as Sodom,…
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