Genesis 14:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. They took Lot, etc. - The people, being exceedingly wicked, had provoked God to afflict them by means of those marauding kings; and Lot also suffered, being found in company with the workers of iniquity. Every child remembers the fable of the Geese and Cranes; the former, being found feeding where the latter were destroying the grain, were all taken in the same net. Let him that readeth understand.