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let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as <i>is</i> good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/genesis/19.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/genesis/19.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/genesis/19.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/genesis/19.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/genesis/19.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/genesis/19.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/genesis/19.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/19.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/genesis/19.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/genesis/19.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/genesis/19.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/genesis/19.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/genesis/19.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/genesis/19.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/genesis/19.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/genesis/19.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/genesis/5-24.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/genesis/19.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/genesis/19.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/genesis/19.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/genesis/19.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/genesis/19.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/genesis/19.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/genesis/19.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/genesis/19.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/genesis/19.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/genesis/19.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/19.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/genesis/19.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/genesis/19.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/genesis/19.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/genesis/19.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/19.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) <span class= "bld">I have two daughters.</span>—It is plain from <a href="/judges/19-24.htm" title="Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble you them, and do with them what seems good to you: but to this man do not so vile a thing.">Judges 19:24</a> that this proposal was not viewed in old time with the horror which it seems to deserve. Granting with St. Ambrose that it was the substitution of a smaller for a greater sin, and with St. Chrysostom that Lot was bound by the laws of hospitality to do his utmost to protect his guests, yet he was also bound as a father equally to protect his daughters to the last extremity: and if men might substitute smaller for greater sins, they would have an excuse for practising every form of wickedness. The difficulty arises from the high character given of Lot by St. Peter (<a href="/context/2_peter/2-7.htm" title="And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:">2Peter 2:7-8</a>): but Lot was righteous only relatively; and though his soul was daily vexed by what he saw, it was not vexed enough to make him quit such evil surroundings, and return to the healthy and virtuous life of the mountains. And, when finally he sought refuge in them, as it was not of his own free will, but on compulsion (<a href="/genesis/19-30.htm" title="And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelled in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelled in a cave, he and his two daughters.">Genesis 19:30</a>), he found there no peace, but shared, even if unknowingly, in deeds of horrible lust. The warning of his fall is, that men who part with religious privileges for the sake of worldly advantage are in danger of sinking into moral degradation, and of losing, with their faith and hope, not only their self-respect and happiness, but even that earthly profit for the sake of which they sacrificed their religion.<p><span class= "bld">Unto these men.</span>—The form of the pronoun is archaic, and occurs again in <a href="/genesis/19-25.htm" title="And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.">Genesis 19:25</a>. It is found in a few other places in the Pentateuch, but never elsewhere.<p><span class= "bld">For therefore, </span>&c. . . . —Comp. <a href="/genesis/18-5.htm" title="And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort you your hearts; after that you shall pass on: for therefore are you come to your servant. And they said, So do, as you have said.">Genesis 18:5</a>.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/genesis/19.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/19-8.htm" title="Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes: only to these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.">Genesis 19:8</a></span>. <span class="ital">I have two daughters — </span>This was unadvisedly and unjustifiably offered, probably through the great discomposure and perturbation which his mind was in. It is true, of two evils we must choose the less, but of two sins we must choose neither, nor ever do evil that good may come of it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/genesis/19.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>19:1-29 Lot was good, but there was not one more of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile. Care was therefore taken for saving Lot and his family. Lot lingered; he trifled. Thus many who are under convictions about their spiritual state, and the necessity of a change, defer that needful work. The salvation of the most righteous men is of God's mercy, not by their own merit. We are saved by grace. God's power also must be acknowledged in bringing souls out of a sinful state If God had not been merciful to us, our lingering had been our ruin. Lot must flee for his life. He must not hanker after Sodom. Such commands as these are given to those who, through grace, are delivered out of a sinful state and condition. Return not to sin and Satan. Rest not in self and the world. Reach toward Christ and heaven, for that is escaping to the mountain, short of which we must not stop. Concerning this destruction, observe that it is a revelation of the wrath of God against sin and sinners of all ages. Let us learn from hence the evil of sin, and its hurtful nature; it leads to ruin.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/genesis/19.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>The wicked violence of the citizens displays itself. They compass the house, and demand the men for the vilest ends. How familiar Lot had become with vice, when any necessity whatever could induce him to offer his daughters to the lust of these Sodomites! We may suppose it was spoken rashly, in the heat of the moment, and with the expectation that he would not be taken at his word. So it turned out. "Stand back." This seems to be a menace to frighten Lot out of the way of their perverse will. It is probable, indeed, that he and his family would not have been so long safe in this wicked place, had he not been the occasion of a great deliverance to the whole city when they were carried away by the four kings. The threat is followed by a taunt, when the sorely vexed host hesitated to give up the strangers. "He will needs be a judge." It is evident Lot had been in the habit of remonstrating with them. From threats and taunts they soon proceed to violence. His guests now interfere. They rescue Lot, and smite the rioters with blindness, or a wandering of the senses, so that they cannot find the door. This ebullition of the vilest passion seals the doom of the city.<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/genesis/19.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>4. men of Sodom, compassed the house—Appalling proofs are here given of their wickedness. It is evident that evil communications had corrupted good manners; otherwise Lot would never have acted as he did.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/genesis/19.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">Which have not known man, </span> to wit, carnally. See <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/24-16.htm" title="And the damsel was very fair to look on, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.">Genesis 24:16</a> <a href="/numbers/31-18.htm" title="But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.">Numbers 31:18</a> <a href="/judges/11-39.htm" title="And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,">Judges 11:39</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Do ye to them as is good in your eyes, </span> whatsoever your purpose or pleasure is. See the same phrase <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/20-15.htm" title="And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you: dwell where it pleases you.">Genesis 20:15</a> 41:37 <a href="/numbers/24-1.htm" title="And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.">Numbers 24:1</a></span>, &c. A most imprudent and sinful motion, whereby he yielded to one sin to prevent another, contrary to <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/romans/3-8.htm" title="And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.">Romans 3:8</a></span>, and exposed his daughters’ chastity, which he was obliged to preserve, and which indeed he had no power to expose, especially seeing they were betrothed to other men, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/genesis/19-14.htm" title="And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked to his sons in law.">Genesis 19:14</a></span>. But it is some extenuation of his sin that it proceeded from his great charity and kindness to strangers, and that he was at this time under a great perturbation and discomposure of mind. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">For therefore, </span> that they might be preserved from such outrages. This was the design of the thing, though not of those persons. <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/genesis/18-5.htm" title="And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort you your hearts; after that you shall pass on: for therefore are you come to your servant. And they said, So do, as you have said.">Genesis 18:5</a>"</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Under the shadow of my roof, </span> i.e. under the protection of my house. <span class="ital">Shadow</span> is oft put for protection or defence, as <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/judges/9-15.htm" title="And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.">Judges 9:15</a> <a href="/psalms/36-7.htm" title="How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.">Psalm 36:7</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-45.htm" title="They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middle of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.">Jeremiah 48:45</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/genesis/19.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Behold now, I have two daughters, which have not known man,.... Though some think they were espoused to men, but had not yet cohabited with them, see <a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-14.htm">Genesis 19:14</a>, <p>let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes; this was a very great evil in Lot to make such an offer of his daughters; it was contrary to parental love and affection, an exposing the chastity of his daughters, which should have been his care to preserve; nor had he a power to dispose of them in such a manner: and though fornication is a lesser evil than sodomy, yet all evil is to be avoided, and even it is not to be done that good may come: nothing can be said to excuse this good man, but the hurry of spirit, and confusion of mind that he was in, not knowing what to say or do to prevent the base designs of those men; that he might be pretty certain they would not accept of his offer, their lust burning more after men than women; that this showed his great regard to the laws of hospitality, that he had rather sacrifice his daughters to their brutal lusts, than give up the men that were in his house to them; and that he might hope that this would soften their minds, and put them off of any further attempt; but after all it must be condemned as a dangerous and imprudent action: <p>only unto these men do nothing; for as yet he knew them not to be angels; had he, it would not have given him the concern it did, since he must have known that they were able to defend themselves, and that the sin these men offered to commit could not be perpetrated on them: but he took them for mere men, and his request is, that no injury might be done to their persons in any respect, and especially in that way which their wicked hearts put them upon, and is so shocking to nature: <p>for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof; for though it was not their intention in coming, nor the design of Providence in bringing them into Lot's house, to secure them from the violence of the men of Sodom, but for the preservation of Lot and his family, which as yet he knew nothing of, yet it was what Lot had in view in giving the invitation to them: and the laws of hospitality being reckoned sacred and inviolable, a man's house was accounted an asylum for strangers when taken into it. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/genesis/19.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Behold now, I have two <span class="cverse3">{e}</span> daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as <i>is</i> good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; <span class="cverse3">{f}</span> for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.</span><p>(e) He deserves praise for defending his guests, but he is to be blamed for seeking unlawful means.<p>(f) That I should preserve them from all injury.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/genesis/19.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">8</span>. <span class="ital">forasmuch as</span>] R.V. marg. <span class="ital">for therefore</span>: cf. <a href="/genesis/18-5.htm" title="And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort you your hearts; after that you shall pass on: for therefore are you come to your servant. And they said, So do, as you have said.">Genesis 18:5</a>. Lot’s proposal, so atrocious in our ears, may have been deemed meritorious in an Eastern country, where no sacrifice was considered too great to maintain inviolate the safety of a stranger who had been received in hospitality. That Lot should have thought of imperilling the honour of his family, and not have rather hazarded his own life, is due not so much to the weakness of the man as to the terribly low estimate of womanhood which prevailed at that time. A parallel is afforded by the story in <a href="/judges/1-19.htm" title="And the LORD was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.">Jdg 1:19</a>. The three regulations of modern Arab law as to the protection of the stranger are recorded by Robertson Smith in his <span class="ital">Kinship</span>, p. 259, “(1) the man whose tent rope has touched thine is thy stranger; (2) so also is he who journeys with thee by day and sleeps by thy side at night; (3) the guest who eats with thee is under thy protection, until he has eaten with another.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Genesis 19:8<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/genesis/19.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Lot went out to them, shut the door behind him to protect his guests, and offered to give his virgin daughters up to them. "Only to these men (האל, an archaism for האלּה rof, occurs also in <a href="/genesis/19-25.htm">Genesis 19:25</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-3.htm">Genesis 26:3-4</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/18-27.htm">Leviticus 18:27</a>, and <a href="/deuteronomy/4-42.htm">Deuteronomy 4:42</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/7-22.htm">Deuteronomy 7:22</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/19-11.htm">Deuteronomy 19:11</a>; and אל for אלּה in <a href="/1_chronicles/20-8.htm">1 Chronicles 20:8</a>) do nothing, for therefore (viz., to be protected from injury) have they come under the shadow of my roof." In his anxiety, Lot was willing to sacrifice to the sanctity of hospitality his duty as a father, which ought to have been still more sacred, "and committed the sin of seeking to avert sin by sin." Even if he expected that his daughters would suffer no harm, as they were betrothed to Sodomites (<a href="/genesis/19-14.htm">Genesis 19:14</a>), the offer was a grievous violation of his paternal duty. But this offer only heightened the brutality of the mob. "Stand back" (make way, <a href="/isaiah/49-20.htm">Isaiah 49:20</a>), they said; "the man, who came as a foreigner, is always wanting to play the judge" (probably because Lot had frequently reproved them for their licentious conduct, <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-7.htm">2 Peter 2:7</a>, <a href="/2_peter/2-8.htm">2 Peter 2:8</a>): "not will we deal worse with thee than with them." With these words they pressed upon him, and approached the door to break it in. The men inside, that is to say, the angels, then pulled Lot into the house, shut the door, and by miraculous power smote the people without with blindness (סנורים here and <a href="/2_kings/6-18.htm">2 Kings 6:18</a> for mental blindness, in which the eye sees, but does not see the right object), as a punishment for their utter moral blindness, and an omen of the coming judgment. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/genesis/19-8.htm">Genesis 19:8 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../genesis/19-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 19:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 19:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/19-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 19:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 19:9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>