Genesis 14:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons,c and take the goods to thyself. ”

• Genesis 14:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - Abram Rescues Lot 1. אמרפל 'amrāpel , Amraphel; related: unknown. אלריוך 'aryôk , Ariok, “leonine?” related: ארי 'arı̂y , “a lion:” a name re-appearing in the time of Daniel Daniel...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Genesis 12:1 to Genesis 25:18 . The Story of Abraham. In this section the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  persons . Hebrew. nephesh, souls. App-13. Figure of speech Syne cdoche (of the Part).

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• Genesis 14:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  21. And the king of Sodom said. Moses having, by the way, interrupted the course of his narrative concerning the king of Sodom, by the mention of the king of Salem, now returns to it again; a...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

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• Genesis 14:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. The king of Sodom ... Give ... persons. According to the war customs still existing among the Arab t...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Battle of the Kings, and the Capture and Rescue of Lot Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, had subdued the Canaanites of the Jordan valley some years before the events narrated in this chapter. The la...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Grive me the persons. — To this day it is the rule among the Arabs that, if a camp be plundered, anyone who recovers the booty gives up only the persons, and takes the rest for himself. But Abram,...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  ABRAM'S RESCUE OF LOT Genesis 14:1-24 THIS chapter evidently incorporates a contemporary account of the events recorded. So antique a document was it even when it found its place in this book,...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Abram and Melchizedek Genesis 14:13-24 Recently discovered monuments confirm this narrative of the confederacy of the kings, but do not tell of their overthrow. Abram might fairly have left Lot...

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• Genesis 14:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this chapter we see Lot and Abram in differing circumstances, resulting in the first case from personal choice, and in the second from the choice of God. Lot was involved in trouble through associ...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  REFLECTIONS How very awful is it to contemplate the bloodshed, ravages, and desolation made by war among the inhabitants of the earth! See Reader, what hath sin done, and what a train of evils origi...

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• Genesis 14:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the king of Sodom said unto Abram ,.... After the conversation between him and Melchizedek was over: give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself ; meaning by "persons" or "souls", as in...

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• Genesis 14:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. Ver. 21. And the king of Sodom said. ] He that a few days since faced the heavens, and cared not for four...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Give me the souls, and take thou the substance So the Hebrew reads it. Here he fairly begs the persons, but as freely bestows the goods on Abram. Gratitude teaches us to recompense to the utmost of...

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• Genesis 14:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE WORLD'S CONFLICT We read now for the first time in scripture of war among nations of the ungodly world. Abram has no part in this. It is recorded mainly because of Lot. Four kings war against...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Abram's Disinterestedness. B. C. 1913.       21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Genesis 14:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And the King of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and take the goods for yourself”.' This was not generosity, this is the opening gambit in his negotiations to rescue what he can from the sit...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 14:22 . I have lifted up mine hand] This is a Hebraism for “I have sworn.” The custom was to raise the right hand when taking an oath.— Genesis 14:23 . From a thread e...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Genesis 14:17 . And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dal...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 14:1 . Amraphel king of Shinar, the plain on which Babylon was built. The Hebrew melech, everywhere translated king, is equivalent, according to the Gothic etymon of the same word, to a...

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• Genesis 14:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou shouldst say, I have made Abram rich The believer’s superiority to the world This superiority to the world may be manifested in various ways--a...

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• Genesis 14:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 14:17 And the king of Sodom —Bera, or his successor ( vide Genesis 14:10 )— went out to meet him ( i.e. Abram) after his return from the slaughter (perhaps too for...

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• Genesis 14:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Abraham's Return

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• Genesis 14:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  persons. Heb. souls. Genesis 14:21

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• Genesis 14:21 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Abram Delivers Lot Genesis 14:8-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us bring before you the opening verses of Genesis fourteen. We have before us a story of war and strife. The various kings of citie...

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• Genesis 14:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Give me the souls, and take thou the substance — So the Hebrew reads it. Here he fairly begs the persons, but as freely bestows the goods on Abram. Gratitude teaches us to recompense to the utmost...

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