Genesis 18:24
“Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city,.... Within the Pentapolis, which consisted of five cities; and so…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870Genesis 18:1-33
- The Visit of the Lord to Abraham 2. השׂתחיה vayı̂śtachû “bow,” or bend the body in token of respect to God or man.…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Genesis 18:23-33
Communion with God is kept up by the word and by prayer. In the word God speaks to us; in prayer we speak to him. God…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
spare the place The word in the Heb. means literally "and take away for the place," i.e. its guilt, and so "forgive," as…
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