Genesis 18:21
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which comes to me. And if not, I will know.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
22And the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham yet stood before LORD.
Cross References
Genesis 11:5And LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
Exodus 3:8And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the A
Deuteronomy 8:2And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.
Joshua 22:22The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day),
Psalms 90:8Thou have set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Jeremiah 17:1The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond. It is engraved upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 18:17-23
Abraham's Interview with God. ( b. c. 1898.) 16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 17 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord , to do justice and judgment; that the… Read the whole commentary →