33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. …
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? …
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! …
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
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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