I cannot escape to the mountain, because of the infirmity of my age, and the fainting of my spirits. Thus he showeth an unworthy and unreasonable distrust of God’s power and goodness, which he had now experienced and acknowledged. read more
And it is a little one; therefore as its inhabitants, so its sins are fewer, and it will not be an eminent example of thy vengeance, as the other places will be. read more
I have accepted thee; Heb. I have lift up thy countenance, i.e. granted thy request. The manner of the expression possibly may be taken from the custom of the eastern parts; where petitioners used not to fall upon their knees as we do, but to prostrate themselves with their face to the ground; and the person to whom they addressed themselves, in token of his favourable acceptance of their petitions, commanded them to be lifted up. read more
I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither, because of God’s decree and promise to save thee from the general destruction. read more
This phrase may note, either the time of the day when this was done; or rather the nature and quality of the day, that the sun appeared and shone forth that morning in great lustre and glory; which is well noted as a very considerable circumstance of the history, and a great aggravation of the ruin, which came when they least expected it. read more
And the neighbouring cities, Admah and Zeboim, as appears from Deuteronomy 29:23; Jeremiah 49:18; Hosea 11:8. Brimstone is added to the fire, either to convey and carry down the fire, which in itself is light and apt to ascend; or to increase it, Isaiah 30:33; or to represent the noisomeness of their lusts. From the Lord, i.e. from himself; the noun put for the pronoun, as Genesis 1:27; 2 Chronicles 7:2. But here it is emphatically so expressed, either, 1. To signify that it proceeded not from... read more
All the plain, to wit, where these cities and their territories lay, called the plain of Jordan, Genesis 13:10; all which then became, and to this day continues, to be a filthy lake, called the Dead Sea, because no fish lives in it. read more
His wife looked back, through curiosity, or unbelief, or desire of what she left, or from all these causes; from behind her husband, whom she followed. Which circumstance seems to be mentioned as the reason of this presumption, because she could do it without her husband’s observation or reproof, to which she had a greater regard than to the all-seeing eye of God. And she, i.e. her body, by a very common synecdoche, became a pillar of salt; either metaphorically, i.e. a perpetual durable... read more
God remembered Abraham; either, 1. The promise made to Abraham, Genesis 12:3. Or, 2. The prayer made by Abraham, Genesis 18:23-32, who doubtless in his prayers for Sodom would not forget Lot, though his prayer for him be not there mentioned. And hereby it is insinuated, that Lot, though he was a righteous man, and should be saved eternally, yet deserved to perish temporarily with those wicked people, to whom he associated himself merely for worldly advantages, and should have done so, if... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 19:18
i.e. Unto one of them, as is manifest from the following words. read more