Verses 27-29
As in the Flood story, the writer focused the reader’s attention on the response of individuals to the judgment rather than on the destruction itself. Here those individuals are Lot’s wife and Abraham. Later they will be Lot and his daughters. The picture of Abraham in Genesis 19:27-28 is similar to that of Moses interceding for Israel in the battle with the Amalekites (Exodus 17:11-12). [Note: Sailhamer, The Pentateuch . . ., p. 173.] Lot’s prayer concerning Zoar (Genesis 19:18-20) contrasts with Abraham’s prayer for Sodom (Genesis 18:23-32).
"The substitution of Abraham for Lot in this sentence ["God remembered Abraham," Genesis 19:29; cf. Genesis 8:1] makes an important theological point. Lot was not saved on his own merits but through Abraham’s intercession." [Note: Wenham, Genesis 16-50, p. 59.]
Abraham rescued Lot twice: from the Mesopotamian kings (ch. 14) and from Sodom.
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