And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
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Gill's Exposition
And they said, stand back,.... Turn on one side, get away from the door, that we may come to it:
and they said again: to one another:
this one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a…
- 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
And he will needs be a judge - So his sitting in the gate is perhaps a farther proof of his being there in a magisterial capacity, as some have supposed.
Now it appeared, beyond contradiction, that the cry of Sodom was no louder than there was cause for. This night's work was enough to fill the measure. For we find here,
I. That they were all wicked,…
Cambridge Bible
Stand back LXX ἀπόστα ἐκεί, Lat. recede illuc; cf. "give place," Isa 49:20.
This one fellow Lot is reminded of his solitariness and of his foreign extraction.
came in to sojourn The people contrast…
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