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Genesis 19:22 KJV
Genesis · chapter 19 · verse 22
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.Genesis 19:22 · King James Version
Genesis 19:22 in context
20Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
21And 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.
22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- escapemâlaṭproperly, to be smoothH4422 →
- cannotyâkôlto be able, literally or morallyH3201 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- Hastemâharproperly, to be liquid or flow easilyH4116 →
- comebôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- nameshêman appellation, as amark or memorial of individualityH8034 →
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Here is, I. The rescue of Lot out of Sodom. Thought there were not ten righteous men in Sodom, for whose sakes it might be spared, yet that one righteous man that was among them delivered his own soul, Eze 14:14.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-23