Genesis 19:4 - Exposition

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter . i.e. of the town, as in Jeremiah 51:31 (Lange); from the extremity, or extremities, of the town (Kalisch); from the extremities, i.e. all the population contained within the extremities (Rosenmüller); all the citizens to the last man (Keil). The text probably conveys the writer's idea.