Genesis 13:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Eminent, noted, and impudent sinners; see Genesis 18:20 Ezekiel 16:49; which is here added as a secret reproof to Lot, who was either careless in his inquiry into the dispositions and manners of those among whom he intended to fix his abode, which for many reasons he should have searched out; or he was willing to expose himself to all the hazards which he might incur by their neighbourhood and familiarity, for the sweetness and fertility of the soil; an error which is frequently committed by men in the choice of their habitations, and which oft costs them dear, as it did Lot in the following story.

Genesis 13:13

13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.