Genesis 18:26

Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

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And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

In Context

25Far be it from you to do such a thing, killing the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be treated the same as the wicked. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

27Abraham answered and said, “Look, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, even though I am only dust and ashes!

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Cross References

Isaiah 6:13Even if a tenth of the people remain in it, it will again be destroyed; 1 as a terebinth or an oak is cut down and whose trunk remains, 1 the holy seed is in its stump.”

Isaiah 19:24In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;

Jeremiah 5:1“Rush about through the streets of Jerusalem; search in her city squares, too. Then look and think about this: 1 If you can find a man or anyone who is acting justly and trying to act faithfully, 1 then I will forgive Jerusalem. 1

Matthew 24:22Unless those days are shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.

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 →

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