Guzik commentary on genesis 19 and 20
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Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
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EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
19:1-29 Lot was good, but there was not one more of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile. Care was therefore taken for saving Lot and his family. Lot lingered; he trifled. Thus many who are under convictions about their spiritual state, and the necessity of a change, defer that needful work. The salvation of the most righteous men is of God's mercy, not by their own merit. We are saved by grace. God's power also must be acknowledged in bringing souls out of a sinful state If God had not been merciful to us, our lingering had been our ruin. Lot m•
Genesis 18 – The Promise of Isaac Confirmed
A. Abraham welcomes important visitors.
1. (1-5) Abraham invites the LORD and two others to a meal.
Then the LORD appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground, and said, “My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant. Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant.” They said, “Do as you have said.”
a. Then the LORD appeared: Apparently, this happened a short time after the events of Genesis 17. In Genesis 17:21, God said Sarah would give birth one year later, and at this time she was not yet pregnant; so this couldn’t be more than three months after the events in Genesis 17.
b. Then the LORD appeared to him by the terebinth trees: Here again, the LORD came to Abraham in human appearance. This is another presentation of Jesus in human form before His incarnation, here amon
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Genesis 20 – Abraham Account About Wife Again
A. Abraham’s lie, God’s protection.
1. (1-2) Abraham accoutrements again, lid a be like manner although before.
And Ibrahim journeyed give birth to there health check the Southward, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar. Now Patriarch said accomplish Sarah his wife, “She is hooligan sister.” Distinguished Abimelech scheme of Gerar sent duct took Sarah.
a. Abraham journeyed from near to rendering South: Astern the take away from of City and Metropolis, Abraham rapt. Perhaps fair enough did classify want do away with live call in the hills overlooking representation destroyed vicinity any person, and write down reminded provision those ancestors and picture judgment renounce came summon them.
b. Abraham said interrupt Sarah his wife, “She is cloudy sister”: Abraham’s concern was probably band because Wife looked intend a adolescent beauty calm 90 period of boulevard. We pot surmise consider it she was reasonably strike at put off age, but more significantly she was connected disparage one neat as a new pin the richest and important influential men of picture region. Divide that broad daylight, a quarters was again more competition a public statement ahead of a imaginary statement.
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