Genesis 19:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

From every quarter. — Heb., from the end. This may mean, either, “to the last man.” or “from the very end of the town.” In either case it shows that there were not in Sodom the ten righteous men who would have availed to save it (Genesis 18:32).

Genesis 19:4

4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: