Genesis 19:7
He said, “My friends, please don’t do that really bad thing.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
In Context
6Lot went out to talk to them and shut the door behind him.
Cross References
Genesis 19:4Before they went to bed, all the men that lived in Sodom, both the young men and the old men, they came and stood around Lot’s house,
Romans 1:24So God let them go their own way, and they did whatever they felt like doing. They did whatever their dirty minds thought about, so they did bad things with each other’s bodies.
Jude 1:7Also, don’t forget the story about the towns called Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other towns around there. The people that lived there did bad things, like those bad angels. They always wanted to sleep with somebody, like husbands sleep with their wives, so they did that with people they were not married to, and they did it in all sorts of ways that were dirty and wrong. God is punishing those people now. He put them into the fire that doesn’t stop burning. That shows us how much he will punish people that do bad things like that.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:5-12
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. 6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, 7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them… Read the whole commentary →