Genesis 18:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. Abraham went with them to bring them on the way - This was another piece of primitive hospitality - to direct strangers in the way. Public roads did not then exist and guides were essentially necessary in countries where villages were seldom to be met with, and where solitary dwellings did not exist.