Genesis 18:23

And Avraham drew near, and said, Wilt Thou also destroy the tzaddik with the rasha?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

In Context

22And the Men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Avraham stood yet before Hashem.

24Suppose there be fifty tzaddikim within the city; wilt Thou also destroy and not nasa (spare) + 18:24 take away and bear the guilt of, Isa 53:12 the place lema'an (for the sake of) the fifty tzaddikim that are therein? + 18:24 1K 3:18

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Cross References

Genesis 18:25That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the tzaddik with the rasha; and that the tzaddik should be as the rasha, that be far from Thee: Shall not HaShofet Kol Ha'Aretz (the Judge of All the Earth) do mishpat (right)?

Numbers 16:22And they fell upon their faces, and said, El Elohei HaRuchot L'Chol Basar, shall one man sin, and wilt Thou be angry with Kol HaEdah?

Job 8:3Doth El pervert mishpat (justice)? 1 Or doth Shaddai pervert tzedek? 1

Psalms 11:4Hashem is in His Heikhal Kodesh, 1 Hashemʼs kisse is in Shomayim; 1 His eyes examine, 1 His eyelids try, Bnei Adam. 1

Jeremiah 30:21And their Adir (Prince, Leader) shall be one of their own, 1 and their Moshel (ruler) shall proceed from the midst of them; 1 and I will cause him to draw near, 1 and he shall approach unto Me; 1 for who is this that devoted his lev to approach unto Me? saith Hashem. 1

Hebrews 10:22Let us approach and draw near to Hashem with a lev shalem, with full assurance and bitachon of Emunah, our levavot having been sprinkled clean (tehorim) + 10:22 YAZZEH, “MOSHIACH WILL SPRINKLE,” Isa 52:15 from an evil matzpun (conscience) and our bodies plunged kluhr (pure) into a tevilah in a mikveh mayim. + 10:22 Ezek 36:25-26

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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