“ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. ”
- The Destruction of Sodom and Amorah 9. גשׁ־ < הלאה gesh - hāl'âh , “approach to a distant point,” stand back. 11. סנורים san e vērı̂ym , “blindness,” affecting the mental mor...
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a (n) pillar of salt. (n) Concerning the body only: this was a notable monument of God's vengeance to all who passed that way.
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...
wife. Compare Luke 17:32 . looked back: i.e. curiously. Compare Isaiah 63:5 and Genesis 19:28 . Same word as in Genesis 19:17 . became. Same word as Genesis 1:2 , "the earth became. "
26. But his wife looked back. Moses here records the wonderful judgment of God, by which the wife of Lot was transformed into a statue of salt. But under the pretext of this narrative, captio...
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. She became a pillar of salt - The vast variety of opinions, both ancient and modern, on the crime of Lot's wife, her change,...
But his wife looked back, &c.— The angels, Genesis 19:17 commanded Lot, and consequently those with him, not to look back, which, I apprehend, cannot be understood to mean, a mere turning...
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. This phrase, "pillar of salt," is perhaps...
The Destruction of the Cities of the Plain 1. The visit of the two angels (who are 'the men' of Genesis 18 ) may be regarded as the final test of Sodom. If they were hospitably received and honou...
His wife looked back from behind him. — In Oriental countries it is still the rule for the wife to walk behind her husband. As regards the method of her transformation, some think that she was stif...
DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN Genesis 19:1-38 WHILE Abraham was pleading with the Lord the angels were pursuing their way to Sodom. And in doing so they apparently observed the laws of...
Lot and His Daughters Rescued Genesis 19:24-29 God had mercy on Lot for Abraham's sake. A missionary told me that when, on writing home to his mother, he narrated his miraculous deliverance fro...
Here the story of the visit of Jehovah and the angels is continued. Here we see the two angels coming to Lot. By this time Lot had attained to a position of eminence in Sodom. The phrase, "sitting in...
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. Revelation 19:3 . So we are told, the...
AN OLD-WORLD BEACON ‘But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.’ Genesis 19:26 This is the whole of the record. The offence consisted only in a look; and that...
But his wife looked back from behind him ,.... That is, the wife of Lot, whose name the Jewish writers x say was Adith, or as others Irith y; and, according to the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem,...
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. Ver. 26. But his wife looked back. ] Whether out of curiosity, or foolish pity, or as loath to leave so sweet a country,...
But his wife looked back from behind him Herein she disobeyed an express command. Probably she hankered after her house and goods in Sodom, and was loath to leave them. Christ intimates this to be...
SODOM'S WICKEDNESS EXPOSED Not in the heat of the day, but in the evening, the two angels arrived at Sodom. Lot was sitting in the gate, the place of a judge. He was a believer making an effort to...
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. This also is written for our admonition. Our Saviour refers to it ( Luke 17:32 ), Remember Lot's wife....
His wife looked back, through curiosity, or unbelief, or desire of what she left, or from all these causes; from behind her husband, whom she followed. Which circumstance seems to be mentioned as t...
‘But his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt.' The final footnote increases the tragedy for Lot and warns against complacency. His wife was possibly a native Sodomite a...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 19:25 . Those cities.] Besides Sodom and Gomorrah, other cities were involved in this destruction, the cities of Admah and Zeboim ( Deuteronomy 29:23 ; Hosea 11:8 ), and...
Genesis 19 Notice: I. Sodom's sinfulness. Her sins were committed amidst an unbounded flush of prosperity; they were committed amidst scenes of much natural loveliness, Nature being outraged befo...
Genesis 19:12 . And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: Let me bid...
Genesis 19:1 . Lot sat in the gate of Sodom, as a magistrate, no doubt, for the wicked accuse him of making himself a judge or elder. The main gate of a city was the usual place of hearing causes,...
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar Of salt The cause and danger of backsliding I. THE CAUSE OF BACKSLIDING. Unbelief, leading to (1) disobedience, (2) indec...
EXPOSITION Genesis 19:12 , Genesis 19:13 And the men said unto Lot ,—after the incident recorded in the preceding verses. Lot by this time had doubtless recognized their celestial cha...
The destruction of the Cities of the Plain
looked. Genesis 19:17 Proverbs 14:14 Luke 17:31 Luke 17:32 Hebrews 10:38 and. Numbers 16:38
Lot Fleeing from Sodom Genesis 19:14-30 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have before us one of the greatest conflagrations of all history, dual cities and their neighboring villages utterly consumed by f...
But his wife looked back from behind him — Herein she disobeyed an express command. Probably she hankered after her house and goods in Sodom, and was loath to leave them. Christ intimates this to b...