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Genesis 18:21

I'm going to see if these complaints that have reached me are completely true. I'll know if they're not.”

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In The King James Version

I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

In Context

20Then the Lord said, “There are many complaints made against Sodom and Gomorrah because they sin so blatantly.

22The two men turned and went towards Sodom, but the Lord stayed there with Abraham.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:5But the Lord came down to take a look at the city and the tower that the people were building.

Exodus 3:8That's why I have come down to rescue them from Egyptian oppression and to take them up from that country to a productive, wide-open land—a land flowing with milk and honey—where currently the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites are living.

Deuteronomy 8:2Remember how for these forty years the Lord your God has led you all the way through the desert, humbling you and testing you in order to find out what you were really thinking, and whether or not you would keep his commandments.

Joshua 22:22“The Lord is God of gods, the Lord is God of gods, and he knows! May Israel also know! If we're in rebellion against God or being disloyal to him then kill us right now!

Psalms 90:8You have set out our sins before you—our secret sins are visible in the light of your presence.

Jeremiah 17:1The sin of Judah is inscribed with an iron stylus, engraved with an adamant point, on their minds and on corners of their altars where they worship.

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 →

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