Teks -- Genesis 19:20 (NET)

19:20 Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Clarke: Gen 19:20 - It is a little one

It is a little one - Probably Lot wished to have it for an inheritance, and therefore pleaded its being a little one, that his request might be the more readily granted. Or he might suppose, that being a little city, it was less depraved than Sodom and Gomorrah, and therefore not so ripe for punishment; which was probably the case.

TSK: Gen 19:20 - this // and my

this : Gen 19:30; Pro 3:5-7; Amo 3:6

and my : Gen 12:13; Psa 119:175; Isa 55:3

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Gen 19:20 - And it is a little one

And it is a little one therefore as its inhabitants, so its sins are fewer, and it will not be an eminent example of thy vengeance, as the other places will be.

Gill: Gen 19:20 - Behold 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

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto,.... Pointing to Bela, afterwards called Zoar, from what follows: it is said to be two miles distant from Sodom ^z. But the Jews ^a say it was four miles, and some say ^b five; for they reckon that a man may go five miles from the ascent of the morning (or break of day) till the sun shines out:

and it is a little one: a little city, and the houses and buildings in it few, the inhabitants few; and the sins of it few, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, in comparison of Sodom and Gomorrah; and therefore Lot hoped this favour would be granted him, that this city might be saved, and he be allowed to flee to it, and go no further; but others think this refers not to the city, which some say ^c was a large and spacious one, but to his request, that it was a small thing he asked, and hoped therefore it would not be denied, and in which he was very importunate:

oh, let me escape thither, ( is it not a little one?); or "is it not a little thing" ^d? a small request that I make:

and my soul shall live: I shall not only be able to get thither, and so my life will be preserved; but I shall be in good spirits, rejoice and be glad, that I am got safe and out of the reach of danger; my spirits, which are now faint, and therefore can never think of getting so far as to the mountain, but, if this favour is granted me, they will revive, and I shall cheerfully pursue my journey thither, and be comfortable.