He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
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He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
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And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
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And he said unto him: 'See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.
Cross-references (12)
Passages linked to Genesis 19:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 145:19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
- Job 42:8-9 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.” So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
- Psalms 34:15 Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
- Psalms 102:17 He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
- Genesis 4:7 If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
- Genesis 12:2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- Genesis 18:24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
- Matthew 12:20 He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.
- Luke 11:8 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
- Hebrews 2:17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
- Hebrews 4:15-16 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
- Jeremiah 14:10 Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 21. See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing…
21. See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also. Some ignorantly argue from this expression, that Lot’s prayer was pleasing to God, because he assented to his request, and gave him what he sought. For it is no new thing for the Lord sometimes to grant, as an indulgence, what he, nevertheless, does not approve. And he now indulges Lot, but in such way, that he soon afterwards corrects his folly. Meanwhile, however, since God so kindly and gently bears with the evil wishes of his own people, what will he not do for us if our prayers are regulated according to the pure direction of his Spirit, and are drawn from his word? But after the angel has granted him his wish respecting the place, he again reproves his indolence, by exhorting him to make haste.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, thy face.
Hebrew, thy face.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 19:21 And he said unto him, See, I…
Gen 19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
Ver. 21. I will not overthrow this city.] Zoar, of all the five cites, was preserved by Lot’s prayer, saith Jerome. See Deu 29:23 Isa 15:5.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I have accepted thee; Heb. I have lift up…
I have accepted thee; Heb. I have lift up thy countenance, i.e. granted thy request. The manner of the expression possibly may be taken from the custom of the eastern parts; where petitioners used not to fall upon their knees as we do, but to prostrate themselves with their face to the ground; and the person to whom they addressed themselves, in token of his favourable acceptance of their petitions, commanded them to be lifted up.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he said unto him, see, I have accepted…
And he said unto him, see, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also,.... Accepted thy prayer and granted thy request, as well as in other things; shown grace and mercy to thee: or, "have lifted up thy face" (e); alluding to the custom of the eastern countries, where persons, when they come into the presence of their superiors, used to prostrate their faces to the ground; when, as a token of their acceptance of them, and good will to them, they used to order them to be lifted up, or them to lift up their faces, and stand before them:
that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken; for, though he had not in express words petitioned that the city might be spared, yet he had tacitly done it, insomuch as he had requested he might flee unto it, where he could not have been safe had it been destroyed.
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(e) "suscepi faciem tuam", Pagninus, Moatanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Piscator.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. See, I have accepted thee] How prevalent…
Verse 21. See, I have accepted thee] How prevalent is prayer with God! Far from refusing to grant a reasonable petition, he shows himself as if under embarrassment to deny any.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain See, I have accepted thee concerning this . .…
See, I have accepted thee concerning this . . . also--His request was granted him, the prayer of faith availed, and to convince him, from his own experience, that it would have been best and safest at once to follow implicitly the divine directions.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. I have accepted thee — Hebrews, I have…
21. I have accepted thee — Hebrews, I have lifted up thy face. Metaphorically, the supplicant is supposed to have his face bowed down to the earth, and a granting of the prayer thus offered was a lifting up of the face.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. I have accepted thee] Heb. “I have received,”…
21. I have accepted thee] Heb. “I have received,” or “lifted up thy countenance,” see note on Gen_4:7. Compare the expression “respecter of persons,” e.g. Act_10:34. Here Jehovah is a “receiver,” or “favourer,” of the person of Lot: cf. Gen_32:20; Mal_1:8.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (21) I have accepted thee.—Heb., I have lifted up…
(21) I have accepted thee.—Heb., I have lifted up thy face. (See Note on Gen_4:6-7.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he said unto him, See, I have accepted…
And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee (literally, I have lifted up thy face, the petitioner usually supplicating with his face toward the ground, so that the elevation of his countenance expressed the granting of his request) concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 I am granting this request also
I am granting this request also
"I will do what you have asked"
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cannot do anything
This can be made more explicit. AT: "cannot destroy the other cities" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
Zoar
Translators may add a footnote that says "The name Zoar sounds like the Hebrew word that means 'little.' Lot called this town 'little' in Genesis 19:20."
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Zoar
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