Genesis 18:20

And the LORde sayde? The crie of Sodome and Gomorra is great and there synne is excedynge grevous.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

In Context

19For I knowe him that he will commaunde his childern and his housholde after him yt they kepe the waye of the LORde to do after righte and conscyence that the LORde may brynge vppon Abraham that he hath promysed him.

21I will go downe and see whether they haue done all to gedder acordynge to that crye which is come vnto me or not that I may knowe.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:10And he sayd: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers bloud cryeth vnto me out of the erth.

Genesis 13:13But the men of sodome were wyked and synned exceadyngly agenst the LORde.

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 →

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