Genesis 18:26
And Hashem said, If I find in Sodom fifty tzaddikim within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
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Isaiah 6:13But yet in it shall be a tenth, 1 and it shall be given up to destruction, 1 like the terebinth and like the oak, 1 when they are felled, leave + 6:13 as a remnant a root-stump: 1 so the root-stump shall be the zera kodesh. + 6:13 T.N. This next chapter is possibly the most important in the Bible and is dealt with in The Translator to the Reader.
Isaiah 19:24In that day shall Yisroel be the third with Mitzrayim and with Assyria, even a brocha in the midst of ha'aretz;
Jeremiah 5:1Run ye to and fro through the chutzot Yerushalayim (streets of Jerusalem), 1 and see now, and know, 1 and seek in the rechovot thereof, 1 if ye can find an ish, 1 if there be any that dispenseth mishpat (justice), 1 that seeketh the emunah (faith); 1 and I will forgive her. + 5:1 Jerusalem 1
Matthew 24:22And if those days were not cut short, kol basar (all flesh) would not be saved. But, on account of the Kedoshim, the Bechirim (Chosen Ones), those days will be cut short.
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 →