Genesis 18:21

I will go down now, and see if they have done according to the cry against them, which is come unto me, destruction [shall come upon them]; and if not, I will know it.

Leeser Tanakh

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

20And the Lord said, Because the cry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous:

22And the men turned their faces from there, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man were building.

Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver it out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring it up out of that land unto a land, good and large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Emorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Deuteronomy 8:2And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, in order to afflict thee, to prove thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments, or not.

Joshua 22:22The God of gods, the Eternal, the God of gods, the Eternal, he knoweth, and Israel also shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, [aid us not this day,]

Psalms 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance.

Jeremiah 17:1The sin of Judah is written down with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond: it is engraved upon the table of their heart, and on 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 →

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