Lack of five, <\/B>Heb. for five, <\/I>or because of five, <\/I>to wit, which are lacking or wanting. The same supplement we have also Psa 119:24<\/span>; Lam 4:9<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n Peradventure there should lack five of the fifty righteous<\/strong>,…. Or there should be but forty five; for Abraham perceived, by the Lord’s answer, that there were not fifty righteous persons in the place:<\/p>\n wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five<\/strong>? Abraham proceeds gradually in his requests, and does not ask too much at once, lest he should not succeed:<\/p>\n and he said, if l find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it]<\/strong>; that is, forty five righteous persons.<\/p>\n 28<\/strong>. <\/strong> There shall lack five <\/strong> First he drops to forty-five; then to forty; then to thirty; then to twenty; and finally to ten . Conant observes on this whole passage that it has “no parallel, even in sacred history . With earnestness, but with unaffected humility, devout courtesy, and a reverent freedom, the patriarch presses his suit on behalf of the few righteous men in Sodom . On the other hand, Jehovah receives the intercession of his servant graciously, and admits the reasonableness of his plea by granting all that he desires . There is a beautiful aptness in the turn given to the first plea for a slight abatement of this number; ‘Wilt thou for five destroy the whole city?’ The whole passage is singularly felicitous and beautiful, in conception and expression . ”<\/p>\n Gen 18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it].<\/p>\n Ver. 28. Peradventure, &c.<\/strong> ] See Trapp on “<\/em> Gen 18:29 “<\/em> See Trapp on “<\/em> Gen 18:30 “<\/em> <\/p>\n wilt: Num 14:17-19, 1Ki 20:32, 1Ki 20:33, Job 23:3, Job 23:4 <\/p>\n If I: Gen 18:26, Gen 18:29 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Dan 2:18 – of the God of heaven<\/p>\n Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it]. Lack of five, Heb. for five, or because of five, to wit, which are lacking or wanting. The same supplement we … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 18:28”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"