Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
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Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
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And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
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And the LORD said: 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sake.'
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to Genesis 18:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 5:1 “Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
- Matthew 24:22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
- Isaiah 65:8 Yahweh says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.
- Ezekiel 22:30 “I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
- Isaiah 6:13 If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock.”
- Isaiah 10:22 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
- Isaiah 19:24 In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain God declareth that his judgments were done with great…
God declareth that his judgments were done with great mercy, forasmuch as all were so corrupt, that not only fifty but ten righteous men could not be found there, and also that the wicked are spared for the righteous’ sake.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 18:26 And the LORD said, If I find…
Gen 18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
Ver. 26. If I find fifty righteous.] The saints are the salt of the earth, that keep the rest from rotting and putrifying.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the…
If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city,.... Sodom is particularly mentioned because Lot dwelt there, and being the metropolis, and the city of greatest note, as Jarchi observes, it is put for the rest; and the sense is, if fifty righteous persons could be found in all the five cities, mercy should be shown them:
then will I spare all the place for their sakes; not Sodom only, but the whole country, of which Sodom was the chief; the Lord takes up and agrees to the number Abraham pitched upon, and grants the request he makes.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom…
And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city (thus accepting the test proposed by Abraham, but not necessarily thereby acquiescing in the absolute soundness of his logic), then I will spare (not as an act of justice, but as an exercise of mercy, and not because of any suspicions that might otherwise attach to my rectitude, but solely in vindication of my clemency) all the place (not the righteous merely, which was all that justice could have legitimately demanded) for their sakes, i.e. because of the claims upon my mercy which grace admits the righteous to prefer.
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