Genesis 18:27

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

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And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

In Context

26Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

28What if there are five less than fifty righteous? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” Then he said, “I will not destroy it, if I find there forty-five.”

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, 1 until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. 1 For dust you are, and to dust you will return.”

Exodus 32:11But Moses tried to calm down Yahweh his God. He said, “Yahweh, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Job 4:19how much more is this true of those who live in houses of clay, 1 whose foundation is in the dust, 1 who are crushed sooner than a moth? 1

Job 42:6So I despise myself; 1 I repent in dust and ashes.”

Psalms 144:3Yahweh, what is man that you take notice of him 1 or the son of man that you think about him? 1

Isaiah 6:5Then I said, 1 “Woe is me! For I am doomed because I am a man of unclean lips, 1 and I live among a people of unclean lips, 1 because my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh, Yahweh of hosts!”

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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