Genesis 18:21
I will now go down there and see the outcry against her that has come to me, whether they have really done it. If not, I will know.”
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22So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before Yahweh.
Cross References
Genesis 11:5So Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the descendants of Adam had built.
Exodus 3:8I have come down to free them from the Egyptians' power and to bring them up from that land to a good, large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Deuteronomy 8:2You will call to mind all the ways that Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order that he might humble you, that he might test you to know what was in your heart, as to whether you would keep his commandments or not.
Joshua 22:22“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh! The Mighty One, God, Yahweh!—He knows, and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against Yahweh, do not spare us on this day
Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, 1 our hidden sins in the light of your presence. 1
Jeremiah 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus having a diamond point. 1 It is engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of your altars. 1
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 →