And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad,.... Into the fields of Sodom, or the suburbs of it:
that he said, escape for thy life; not one of the two men or angels that had been…
- The Destruction of Sodom and Amorah 9. גשׁ־<הלאה gesh-hāl'âh, “approach to a distant point,” stand back. 11. סנורים sanevērı̂ym, “blindness,” affecting the mental more than the ocular vision. 37.…
Adam Clarke
When they had brought them forth, etc. - Every word here is emphatic, Escape for thy Life; thou art in the most imminent danger of perishing; thy life and thy soul are both at stake. Look not behind…
Here is, I. The rescue of Lot out of Sodom. Thought there were not ten righteous men in Sodom, for whose sakes it might be spared, yet that one righteous man that was among them delivered his own…
Cambridge Bible
he said One of the men is spokesman, as in Gen 19:19; but the plural "they said" is found in the LXX and Lat.
look not behind thee The meaning of this direction, which recalls the story of Orpheus and…
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