geneva Genesis:18-19
geneva@Genesis:18:1 @ Againe the Lord appeared vnto him in the plaine of Mamre, as he sate in his tent doore about the heate of the day.
geneva@Genesis:18:2 @ And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three (note:)That is, three angels in the shape of men.(:note) men stood by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
geneva@Genesis:18:3 @ And said, My (note:)Speaking to the one who appeared to be most majestic, for he thought they were men.(:note) Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
geneva@Genesis:18:4 @ Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and (note:)For men used to go bare footed in those parts because of the heat.(:note) wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
geneva@Genesis:18:5 @ And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye (note:)As sent by God that I should do my duty to you.(:note) come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
geneva@Genesis:18:6 @ Then Abraham made haste into the tent vnto Sarah, and saide, Make ready at once three measures of fine meale: kneade it, and make cakes vpon the hearth.
geneva@Genesis:18:7 @ And Abraham ranne to the beastes, and tooke a tender and good calfe, and gaue it to the seruant, who hasted to make it ready.
geneva@Genesis:18:8 @ And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and (note:)For as God gave them bodies for a time, so he gave them the abilities of them, to walk, to eat and drink, and such like.(:note) they did eat.
geneva@Genesis:18:9 @ Then they saide to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he answered, Beholde, she is in the tent.
geneva@Genesis:18:10 @ And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of (note:)That is, about this time when she shall be alive, or when the child shall come into this life.(:note) life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard [it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him.
geneva@Genesis:18:11 @ (Nowe Abraham and Sarah were old and striken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after the maner of women)
geneva@Genesis:18:12 @ Therefore Sarah (note:)For she believed the order of nature, rather than believing the promise of God.(:note) laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
geneva@Genesis:18:13 @ And ye Lord saide vnto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah thus laugh, saying, Shall I certainely beare a childe, which am olde?
geneva@Genesis:18:14 @ (Shall any thing be hard to the Lord? at the time appointed will I returne vnto thee, euen according to the time of life, and Sarah shall haue a sonne.)
geneva@Genesis:18:15 @ But Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not: for she was afraide; he said, It is not so: for thou laughedst.
geneva@Genesis:18:16 @ Afterwarde the men did rise vp from thence and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
geneva@Genesis:18:17 @ And the (note:)Jehovah the Hebrew word we call Lord, shows that this angel was Christ: for this word is only applied to God.(:note) LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
geneva@Genesis:18:18 @ Seeing that Abraham shalbe in deede a great and a mightie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in him?
geneva@Genesis:18:19 @ For I know him, (note:)He shows that fathers ought both to know God's judgments, and to declare them to their children.(:note) that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
geneva@Genesis:18:20 @ Then the Lorde saide, Because the crie of Sodom and Gomorah is great, and because their sinne is exceeding grieuous,
geneva@Genesis:18:21 @ I will (note:)God speaks after the fashion of men: that is, I will enter into judgment with good advise.(:note) go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the For our sins cry for vengeance, though no one accuses us. cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
geneva@Genesis:18:22 @ And the men turned thence and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lord.
geneva@Genesis:18:23 @ Then Abraham drewe neere, & said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
geneva@Genesis:18:24 @ If there be fiftie righteous within the citie, wilt thou destroy and not spare the place for the fiftie righteous that are therein?
geneva@Genesis:18:25 @ Be it farre fro thee from doing this thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be euen as the wicked, be it farre from thee. shall not the Iudge of all the worlde doe right?
geneva@Genesis:18:26 @ And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom (note:)God declares that his judgments were done with great mercy, even though all were so corrupt that not only fifty but ten righteous men could not be found there, and also that the wicked are spared for the sake of the righteous.(:note) fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
geneva@Genesis:18:27 @ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am (note:)By this we learn, that the nearer we approach to God, the more our miserable estate appears, and the more we are humbled.(:note) but] dust and ashes:
geneva@Genesis:18:28 @ If there shall lacke fiue of fiftie righteous, wilt thou destroy all the citie for fiue? And he saide, If I finde there fiue and fourtie, I will not destroy it.
geneva@Genesis:18:29 @ And he yet spake to him againe, and saide, What if there shalbe found fourtie there? Then he answered, I will not doe it for fourties sake.
geneva@Genesis:18:30 @ Againe he said, Let not my Lord nowe be angry, that I speake, What if thirtie be founde there? Then he saide, I will not doe it, if I finde thirtie there.
geneva@Genesis:18:31 @ Moreouer he said, Behold, now I haue begonne to speake vnto my Lord, What if twentie be founde there? And he answered, I will not destroy it for twenties sake.
geneva@Genesis:18:32 @ And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this (note:)If God did not refuse the prayer for the wicked Sodomites, even to the sixth request, how much more will he grant the prayers of the godly for the afflicted Church?(:note) once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.
geneva@Genesis:18:33 @ And the Lord went his way when he had left communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned vnto his place.
geneva@Genesis:19:1 @ And there came two (note:)In which we see God's provident care in preserving his: even though he does not reveal himself to all alike: for Lot had but two angels, and Abraham three.(:note) angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
geneva@Genesis:19:2 @ And he saide, See my Lords, I pray you turne in nowe into your seruants house, and tarie all night, and wash your feete, & ye shall rise vp early and goe your wayes. Who saide, Nay, but we will abide in the streete all night.
geneva@Genesis:19:3 @ And (note:)That is, he begged them so insistently.(:note) he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they Not because they had need, but because the time was not yet come for them to reveal themselves. did eat.
geneva@Genesis:19:4 @ But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, (note:)Nothing is more dangerous than to live where sin reigns: for it corrupts all.(:note) all the people from every quarter:
geneva@Genesis:19:5 @ Who crying vnto Lot said to him, Where are the men, which came to thee this night? Bring them out vnto vs that we may knowe them.
geneva@Genesis:19:6 @ Then Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doore after him,
geneva@Genesis:19:7 @ And said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.
geneva@Genesis:19:8 @ Behold now, I have two (note:)He deserves praise for defending his guests, but he is to be blamed for seeking unlawful means.(:note) daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; That I should preserve them from all injury. for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
geneva@Genesis:19:9 @ Then they said, Away hence, and they said, He is come alone as a stranger, and shall he iudge and rule? We will nowe deale worse with thee then with them. So they preassed sore vpon Lot himselfe, and came to breake the doore.
geneva@Genesis:19:10 @ But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them & shut to ye doore.
geneva@Genesis:19:11 @ Then they smote the men that were at the doore of the house with blindnes both small and great, so that they were wearie in seeking the doore.
geneva@Genesis:19:12 @ Then the men said vnto Lot, Whom hast thou yet here? Either sonne in lawe, or thy sonnes, or thy daughters, or whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring it out of this place.
geneva@Genesis:19:13 @ For (note:)This proves that the angels are ministers, both to execute God's wrath and to declare his favour.(:note) we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
geneva@Genesis:19:14 @ Then Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe, which maried his daughters, and said, Arise, get you out of this place: for the Lord will destroy the citie: but he seemed to his sonnes in lawe as though he had mocked.
geneva@Genesis:19:15 @ And when the morning arose, the Angels hasted Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be destroyed in the punishment of the citie.
geneva@Genesis:19:16 @ And while he (note:)The mercy of God strives to overcome man's slowness in following God's calling.(:note) lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
geneva@Genesis:19:17 @ And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; (note:)He willed him to flee God's judgments and not to be sorry to leave that rich country, full of vain pleasures.(:note) look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
geneva@Genesis:19:18 @ And Lot saide vnto them, Not so, I pray thee, my Lord.
geneva@Genesis:19:19 @ Behold now, thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercie, which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauing my life: and I cannot escape in the mountaine, least some euill take me, and I die.
geneva@Genesis:19:20 @ Behold now, this city [is] near to flee unto, and it [is] a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ([is] it not a (note:)Though it is little, yet it is great enough to save my life: in which he errs by choosing another place than the angel had appointed him.(:note) little one?) and my soul shall live.
geneva@Genesis:19:21 @ Then he said vnto him, Beholde, I haue receiued thy request also concerning this thing, that I will not ouerthrow this citie, for the which thou hast spoken.
geneva@Genesis:19:22 @ Haste thee, escape thither; for I (note:)Because God's commandment was to destroy the city and to save Lot.(:note) cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Which before was called Belah, in (Gen_14:2). Zoar.
geneva@Genesis:19:23 @ The sunne did rise vpon the earth, when Lot entred into Zoar.
geneva@Genesis:19:24 @ Then the Lord rained vpon Sodom and vpon Gomorah brimstone, & fire from the Lord out of heauen,
geneva@Genesis:19:25 @ And ouerthrewe those cities and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities; and that that grewe vpon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:19:26 @ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a (note:)Concerning the body only: this was a notable monument of God's vengeance to all who passed that way.(:note) pillar of salt.
geneva@Genesis:19:27 @ And Abraham rising vp earely in ye morning went to the place, where he had stand before the Lord,
geneva@Genesis:19:28 @ And looking towarde Sodom and Gomorah and toward all the land of the plaine, behold, he sawe the smoke of the lande mounting vp as the smoke of a fornace.
geneva@Genesis:19:29 @ But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, God thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middes of the destruction, when he ouerthrewe the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.
geneva@Genesis:19:30 @ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he (note:)Having felt God's mercy, he did not dare provoke him again by continuing among the wicked.(:note) feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
geneva@Genesis:19:31 @ And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the (note:)Meaning in the country which the Lord had now destroyed.(:note) earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
geneva@Genesis:19:32 @ Come, let us make our father (note:)For unless he had been drunk, he would never have done that abominable act.(:note) drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
geneva@Genesis:19:33 @ So they made their father drinke wine that night, and the elder went and lay with her father: but he perceiued not, neither whe she lay downe, neither when she rose vp.
geneva@Genesis:19:34 @ And on the morowe the elder saide to the yonger, Behold, yester night lay I with my father: let vs make him drinke wine this night also, and goe thou and lie with him, that we may preserue seede of our father.
geneva@Genesis:19:35 @ So they made their father drinke wine that night also, and the yonger arose, & lay with him, but he perceiued not, when she lay downe, neither when she rose vp.
geneva@Genesis:19:36 @ Thus were (note:)Thus God permitted him to fall most horribly in the solitary mountains, whom the wickedness of Sodom could not overcome.(:note) both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
geneva@Genesis:19:37 @ And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the (note:)Who as they were born in most horrible incest, so were they and their posterity vile and wicked.(:note) Moabites unto this day.
geneva@Genesis:19:38 @ And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name (note:)That is, son of my people: signifying that they rejoiced in their sin, rather than repenting of it.(:note) Benammi: the same [is] the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
geneva@Genesis:20:1 @ And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and (note:)Which was toward Egypt.(:note) Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
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