2 Peter 2:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; ”

2 Peter 2:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes - Genesis 19:24-25 . This is a third example to demonstrate that God will punish the wicked. Compare the notes at Jude 1:7 . The word her...
2 Peter 2:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

As there were false prophets in Israel, so there will arise false teachers among the faithful. (Writing from the assumed standpoint of the apostolic age, he projects their coming into the future; in...
2 Peter 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

turning... into ashes . Greek. tephroo. Only here. condemned . App-122. overthrow . Greek. katastrophe. See 2 Timothy 2:14 . making . having made. ensample . Greek. hupodeigma. See J...
2 Peter 2:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6 The cities of Sodom. This was so memorable an example of Divine vengeance, that when the Scripture speaks of the universal destruction of the ungodly, it alludes commonly to this as the ty...
2 Peter 2:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2424 GOD THE PUNISHER OF SIN 2 Peter 2:4-9 . If God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judg...
2 Peter 2:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; The cities of Sodom and Gomorrha - See...
2 Peter 2:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And turning the cities, &c.— Strabo says, that all the ground thereabouts, was τεφρωδη, reduced to ashes or cinders. Condemned is here put for punishment, which commonly follows condemnation,...
2 Peter 2:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; With - `TO overthrow' (Alford). E...
2 Peter 2:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Warning Against a Threatened Plague of Brutal False Teachers As of old there were false as well as true prophets, so it will be now. This leads the Apostle to speak about the false teachers, who i...
2 Peter 2:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(4-8) Three instances of divine vengeance, proving that great wickedness never goes unpunished.
2 Peter 2:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 23 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER 2 Peter 2:1-9 THIS second chapter contains much more of a direct description of the heretical teaching and practices from which the converts were in...
2 Peter 2:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Doom and Deliverance 2 Peter 2:1-11 Already the early Church was threatened with destructive heresies introduced by men who desired only their self-aggrandizement. All the Apostles give warning...
2 Peter 2:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Turning to the subject of the perils threatening the Church, two are referred to - false teachers, and a materialization of mind which follows on such teaching. As in old days there were false prophe...
2 Peter 2:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring...
2 Peter 2:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes ,.... By raining brimstone and fire upon them from heaven, Genesis 19:24 which soon reduced them to ashes, with Admah and Zeboiim, Deuteron...
2 Peter 2:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; Ver. 6. And turning the cities ] B...
2 Peter 2:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And turning the cities of Sodom, &c., into ashes When the inhabitants of those places were sunk into the lowest degeneracy; and condemned them with an overthrow Punished them with utter destr...
2 Peter 2:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

But the true government of God has been hated and rejected -even by men claiming to be Christian. Peter, a true prophet, has forewarned of this in this chapter; and the day has come of which he has p...
2 Peter 2:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Divine Judgments. A. D. 67. --3 Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their d...
2 Peter 2:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The cities of Sodom and Gomorrha; which being the chief of the five, include Admah and Zeboim, Zoar, the fifth, being spared for Lot's sake, Genesis 14:18 , compared with Genesis 19:25 . Con...
2 Peter 2:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Examples Of God's Judgment On Licentious Behaviour And His Delivery Of The Righteous ( 2 Peter 2:4-9 ). Peter now calls on a number of examples from the Old Testament which demonstrate the truth o...
2 Peter 2:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MISCHIEF-MAKERS AND MISCHIEF-MAKING CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES THE subject treated in this chapter is the mischievous influence of corrupting doctrine. And false doctrine is constantly treat...
2 Peter 2:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Peter 2:6 I. Our text shows that God's severity on sin is an awful fact. St. Peter points (1) to the vengeance He executed on the sinning angels. Every argument which can be applied against the...
2 Peter 2:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Peter 2:1 . But there were false prophets also among the people, How true that is still! Be not startled, brethren, as though some strange thing had happened to us in this generation. It always...
2 Peter 2:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 2:1 . False teachers who bring in damnable heresies. Sects leading to perdition, and to the extreme of punishment. Who were they? They were yet to come, in part; the roots only began as ye...
2 Peter 2:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people; rather, as in the Revised Version, but there arose false prophets also among the people. The transition is s...
2 Peter 2:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Examples from History:
2 Peter 2:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:11 ; Amos 4:11 ; Deuteronomy 29:23 ; Ezekiel 16:49-56 ; Genesis 19:24 ; Genesis 19:25 ; Genesis 19:28 ; Hosea 11:8 ; Isaiah 13:19 ; Jeremiah 50:40 ; Jude 1:7 ; Luke 17:28...
2 Peter 2:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Timely Warnings 2 Peter 2:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It has been said that "to be forewarned is to be forearmed." If God had not told us the things which would surely come, to pass, we would not...

2 Peter 2:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Peter 2:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Peter 2:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Peter 2:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Peter 2:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Peter 2:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Peter 2:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 2:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Peter 2:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Peter 2:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Peter 2:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Peter 2:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 2:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Peter 2:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Peter 2:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 2:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary