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2441 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 20.25 (Matthew Henry)

… of Sodom’s flames. [2.] Solitude has its temptations as well as company, and particularly to uncleanness. When Joseph was alone with his mistress he was in danger …

2442 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 20.26 (Matthew Henry)

… in Sodom, but was a constant mourner for the wickedness of the place and a witness against it, was yet, in the mountain, where he was alone, and as he thought quite …

2443 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 21.2 (Matthew Henry)

… of Sodom, or because the country round was for the present prejudiced by it, or, as some of the Jewish writers say, because he was grieved at Lot’s incest with …

2444 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 21.5 (Matthew Henry)

… as Sodom, which was indeed justly destroyed, but a nation which, in this matter, was innocent.

2445 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 109.11 (Matthew Henry)

… of Sodom was to the soul of righteous Lot. 4. These have been the abominations of the former inhabitants, Leviticus 18:24, 18:27. Therefore it was necessary that …

2446 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 129.11 (Matthew Henry)

… overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the smell of the fire was still in their nostrils, yet they returned to it. See Proverbs 27:22. (1.) They magnified the plenty and …

2447 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 134.19 (Matthew Henry)

… for Sodom ( Genesis 18:23 ): Wilt thou destroy the righteous with the wicked ? Such is the plea here: Shall one man sin and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation …

2448 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 143.5 (Matthew Henry)

… as Sodom, as was so far from blushing for it that he rather prided himself in it, and gloried in his shame. All the circumstances concurred to make it exceedingly …

2449 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 152.5 (Matthew Henry)

… of Sodom; yet the iniquity of Sodom was afterwards found in Israel ( Ezekiel 16:49 ), for which Canaan was made, though not a salt sea as Sodom, yet a barren soil, and …

2450 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 156.10 (Matthew Henry)

… in Sodom. Note, Children often fare the better in this world for the piety of their ancestors: the seed of the upright, though they degenerate, yet are blessed …

2451 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 167.11 (Matthew Henry)

… destroyed Sodom, is said to have come down to see whether its crimes were according to the clamour, Genesis 18:21. In judicial processes it is requisite that …

2452 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 183.20 (Matthew Henry)

… of Sodom bordered closely upon the land of Israel, that by it they might be warned against the iniquity of Sodom; but, not taking the warning, they were made as …

2453 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 186.32 (Matthew Henry)

… of Sodom, Deuteronomy 32:32, 32:33. This must be meant of the enemies of Israel, who fell so easily before the sword of Israel because they were ripe for ruin, and …

2454 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 203.3 (Matthew Henry)

… which Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed in Abraham’s time, whose ruins lie buried in the bottom of this dead water, which never either was moved itself or …

2455 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 231.8 (Matthew Henry)

… in Sodom, abundance of uncleanness, when there was among them, as in Sodom, abundance of idleness, Ezekiel 16:49. But he that was honestly diligent in his business …

2456 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 231.9 (Matthew Henry)

… like Sodom, this old man was like Lot in Sodom, who sat in the gate to invite strangers, Genesis 19:1. Thus Job opened his doors to the traveller, and would not suffer …

2457 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 231.13 (Matthew Henry)

… of Sodom, and is thence called Sodomy. The Dead Sea, which was the standing monument of God’s vengeance upon Sodom, for its filthiness, was one of the boundaries …

2458 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 232.4 (Matthew Henry)

… as Sodom, even the sin of Sodom, but his modesty would not suffer him to repeat it; it was sufficient to say they would have slain him, for he would rather have been …

2459 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 232.6 (Matthew Henry)

… upon Sodom, but the neighbouring cities. If the Israelites had not made this reasonable demand, they would have had much more reason to lament the following …

2460 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 232.7 (Matthew Henry)

… of Sodom, was as the garden of the Lord, which perhaps helped to make the inhabitants, like the men of Sodom, wicked, and sinners before the Lord exceedingly, Genesis …