Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
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Genesis 3:19in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Exodus 32:11And Moses besought Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, that thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Job 4:19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Job 42:6Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.
Psalms 144:3Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
Isaiah 6:5Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 18:24-33
Abraham's Intercession for Sodom. ( b. c. 1898.) 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the Lord said, If I… Read the whole commentary →