Kejadian 19:17
Konteks19:17 When they had brought them outside, they 1 said, “Run 2 for your lives! Don’t look 3 behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! 4 Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”
Kejadian 19:25
Konteks19:25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, 5 including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew 6 from the ground.
Kejadian 19:29
Konteks19:29 So when God destroyed 7 the cities of the region, 8 God honored 9 Abraham’s request. He removed Lot 10 from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed 11 the cities Lot had lived in.
[19:17] 1 tn Or “one of them”; Heb “he.” Several ancient versions (LXX, Vulgate, Syriac) read the plural “they.” See also the note on “your” in v. 19.
[19:17] 3 tn The Hebrew verb translated “look” signifies an intense gaze, not a passing glance. This same verb is used later in v. 26 to describe Lot’s wife’s self-destructive look back at the city.
[19:17] 4 tn Or “in the plain”; Heb “in the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.
[19:25] 5 tn Or “and all the plain”; Heb “and all the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.
[19:25] 6 tn Heb “and the vegetation of the ground.”
[19:29] 7 tn The construction is a temporal clause comprised of the temporal indicator, an infinitive construct with a preposition, and the subjective genitive.
[19:29] 8 tn Or “of the plain”; Heb “of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.
[19:29] 9 tn Heb “remembered,” but this means more than mental recollection here. Abraham’s request (Gen 18:23-32) was that the
[19:29] sn God showed Abraham special consideration because of the covenantal relationship he had established with the patriarch. Yet the reader knows that God delivered the “righteous” (Lot’s designation in 2 Pet 2:7) before destroying their world – which is what he will do again at the end of the age.
[19:29] 10 sn God’s removal of Lot before the judgment is paradigmatic. He typically delivers the godly before destroying their world.