Lot enter cameth two angets. 22. Lot is sent out of Sodom B.C.1898. | lords, turn in, I pray you, into and ye shall rise up early,and go He. 13.2. your servant's house, and tarry all night, and dwash your feet, Nay; but we will abide in the on your ways. And they said, street all night. dch. 18.4 CHAPTER XIX. loward Sodom: but Abraham | B.C.1898. stood yet before the LORD. 23 And Abraham "drew near, He. 10. dver. 1. 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? Nu. 16. See Lu. 22 2 Sa. 24. 28. gje. 5. 1. 24. 17. 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 bJob8.20. the wicked, that be far from Is.3.10.11 thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the LORD said, IfI find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city,then I will spare all the place for their sakes. 27 And Abraham answered and said, 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. 29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. 30 And he said unto him, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not i 3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; fch. 18. 8. fand he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. 4 But before they lay down, the menof the city,even the men Job 8.3. of Sodom, compassed the house & 34. 17. round, both old and young, all Ps. 58. 11. & 94. 2. 8 Is. 3. 9. 5 And they called unto Lot, the people from every quarter: and said unto him, Where are this night? bbring them out unto the men which came in to thee us, that we imay know them. 6 And kLot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, Ro. 3. 6. kJe. 5. 1. Ez. 22.30. h Ju. 19. ich. 4. 1. 48. 2Co.5. L 1 See Ju. 19. 24. 7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. 81Beholdnow, Ihavetwodaughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; See ch for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. 18. 5. 2 Pe. 7, 8. 2. 33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. CHAPTER XIX. Lot entertaineth two angels, 1. 4 The vicious Sodomites are stricken with blindness. 12 Lot is sent for safety into the mountains. 18 He obtaineth leave to go into Zoar. 24 Sodom and Gomorral are destroyed. 26 Lot's wife is a pillar of salt. 30 Lot dwelleth in a cave. 31 The incestuous original of Moab and Ammon. 9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow "came in to sojourn, and The will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And theypressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. 10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 11 And they smote the men Pthat were at the door of the house withblindness,both small and great; so that they wearied themselves to find the door. 12 T And the men said unto Lot,Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever 9 ch. 7. 1. thou hast in the city, bring 2Pe.2.7,9. them out of this place: 13 For we will destroy this Tch.18.20. place, because the 'cry of them is waxen great before the face of 1 Ch. 21. the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. AND there "came two angels ch.18-22 Ex.9.21. for the LORD will destroy this city: "but he seemed as one that sat in the gate of Sodom; and b ch.18. 1. & 24. 17. mocked unto his sons-in-law. Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed. consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful unto him; band they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad,that he said, Escape for thy life; dlook not behind thee, neither staythou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. 18 And Lotsaid unto them,Oh, "not so, my Lord! GENESIS. Lu. 18.4 ch. 16.2, 13. Ro. 9. 4. ch.38.8, 15, 16. 9. De. 25. bPs. 34.22 14 19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, Ac. 10. and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life: and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me,and I die: 20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither! (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. 21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concern- fJob 42.8, ing this thing also, that I will 9. Ps.145. not overthrow this city, for the 19. which thou hast spoken. 5. 19. Ma. 12. 1897. tHeb.thys De.2. 22 Haste thee, escape thither; face. for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither: therefore the name of the citywas called Zoar. 23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 24 Then ithe LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; See ch. Ex. 32.10. Ma. 6. 5. heh.13.10. little. ver. 20. 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and allt Heb. the inhabitants of the cities, gone and that which grew upon forth. the ground. 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became la pillar of salt. 9. Abraham denieth his wife. him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he, and his two daughters. 31 And the first-born said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth "to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; aud he perceived notwhen she lay down.norwhen shearose. 35Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 37 And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab: "the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. 38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his naine De.2. 19. Ben-ammi: 'the same is the fa ther of the children of Ammon unto this day. iDe.29.23. 27 And Abraham gat up ear- 17.29.2Pe. Job 33. 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain,and be-? held, and lo, "the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass, when keh. 14.3. ILu.17.32 h ver. 7. tHeb. married to anhusband. ver. 18. 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and "took Sarah. 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, hBehold, thou art but a dead man,for the woman which thou hast taken: for she is ta man's wife. nation? 4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, God destroyed the cities of the ch. 18. ch. 18.23. iwilt thou slay also a righteous plain, that God "remembered 22. Abraham, and sent Lot out of "Re.18.9. the midst of the overthrow, 9 ch. 8. 1. 2Ki. 20. when he overthrew the cities & 18. 23. 3. 2 Co. 1. in the which Lot dwelt. 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: kin the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. 6 And God said unto him in a Abimelech reproved. dream, Yea, know that didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. 7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; "for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, "know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou Pand all that are thine. 8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. 9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have loffended thee,that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. 10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? 11 And Abraham said, Because I thought,Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and 'they will slay me for my wife's sake. 12 And yet indeed "she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother: and she became my wife. 13 And it came to pass, when *God caused me to wander from my father's house that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. 14 And Abimelech 'took sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. CHAPTER XXI. Isaac is born cir. 1898. cir. 1898. A she had said, and the Lan Ich. 31. 7. 1Sa.2.21. did untoSarahbashe had spoken, & 35, 5. beh.17.19. 2 For Sarah 'conceived, and Ex. 34.24. & 18. 10, bare Abraham a son in his old 1Sa.25.26, 14. Ga. 4. age, dat the set time of which God had spoken to him. ND LORD "visited Sarah 23, 28. 34. 16. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, "Isaac. ch.17.19.4 And Abraham fcircumcised hissonIsaac,beingeightdaysold, 5 And Abraham was an hunf Ac. 7. 8. fas God had commanded him. dred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. ch.17.10, 12. cir. 1897. ch. 2.17. P Nu. 16. heh. 17. 1, 32, 33. 17. iPs. 126.2. Is. 54. 1. ch.26.10. Ga. 4. 27. Ex. 32.21 kLu. 1.58. Jos. 7. 25. Ich. 18.11, 'ch. 34. 7. 12. ch.42.18 s. 36. 1. Pr. 16. 6. tch.12. 12. & 26, 7. "See ch. 11. 29. ch. 12.1, 9, 11, &c. He. 11. 8. Ych.12.13 ch. 16.1. ch.16.15. "Ga. 4.22. cir. 1892. PGa.4.30. Seech.25. 6. & 36.6, 7. ch.17.18. 6¶ And Sarah said, iGod hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear kwill laugh with me. 7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given chil dren suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age. : 8 And the child grew, and was weaned and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar "the Egyptian, "which she had borne unto Abraham, "mocking. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, PCast out this bondwoman, and her son: for the son of this bond-woman shall not be heirwith myson,even with Isaac. 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son. 12 And God said unto Abraham, Letit not begrievous in thy sight, because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice: for 'in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 13 And also of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar (putting it on her shoulder) and the child, and John 8 tsent her away: and she de parted, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. 35. "Ex. 3.7. 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him, a good way off, as it were a bow-shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. 17 And "God heard the voice of the lad: and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. 19 The trial of 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand: for I will make him a great nation. 19 And God opened her eyes. and she saw a well of water: and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 31. GENESIS. B. C. B. C. cir. 1892. cir. 1872. ver. 13. Jos. ant. Nu. 22. a 1Co. 10. See 2 13. He.11. Ki. 6. 17, 17. Ja. 1. 18,20. Lu. 12. 1 Pe. 24. 16, 31. 1. 7. 20 And God was with the lad; Ych.28.15. Heb. and hegrew,anddweltinthewil- & 39. 2,3, Behold derness, and became an archer. me. 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. 21. b He. 11. ch. 16.12. 17. ch. 24. 4. & 26. 26. 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phi- ch. 20. 2. chol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: ch.26.28. 23 Now therefore dswear unto d Jos. 2. me here by God, that thou wilt 12.1Sa.24. notdealfalselywithme,norwith 21. my son, nor with my son's son:† Heb. if but according to the kindness thou that I have done unto thee, thou shalt lie shalt do unto me, and to the land unto me. wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham reproved Abi- C2Ch. 3.1. 17. Abraham's faith. A these things, that God did ND it came to pass after tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, t Behold, here I am 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass,and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. 6 And Abraham took the wood dJohn 19. of the burnt-cffering, and dlaid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand and a knife: and they went both of them together. See ch. 26. 15, 18, 20, 21, 22. t Heb. Behold me. fch. 26. 28 And Abraham set seven ewe- 31. Abraham, "What mean these sch. 33. 8. 7 And Isaac spake unto Abra ham his father, and said, My fa ther: and he said, † Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering? Or, kid. 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himselfalamb for a burnt-offering: so they went both of them together. He 11. 17. Ja. 2. 21. 30 And he said, For these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me that I have digged this well. 31 Wherefore he called that ich. 26.33. place Beer-sheba; because That is, there they sware both of them. 32 Thus they made a covenant of the at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech oath. roseup,and Phicholandchiefcaptainofhishost, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. 33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and call-keh. 4. 26. ed there on the name of the De. 33. LORD, the everlasting God. 27. Is. 40. 34 And Abraham sojourned in 28. Ro.16. the Philistines' land many days. CHAPTER XXIL Abraham is tempted to offer Isaac, 1. 3 He giveth proof of his faith and obedience. 11 The angel stayeth him. 13 Isaac is exchanged with a ram. 14 The place is called Jehovali-jireh. 15 Abraham is blessed again. 20 The generation of Nahor unto Rebekah. 26. Ti. 1. 17. ch. 26. 5. Ja. 2. 22. 9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order; and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only sơn, from me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offerThat is, ing in the stead of his son. The age and death of Sarah. CHAPTER XXIII, XXIV. The purchase of Machpelah. of Heth. 15 T And the angel of the | B.C. 1872. B.C.1860. of the land, even to the children LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 16 And said, hBy myself have 1 aworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, kand as the sand which is upon the seat shore; and thy seed shall possess "the gate of his enemies; 18 "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; "because thou hast obeyed my voice. hPs.105.9. Lu. 1. 73. He. 6. 13, 14. ich. 15. 5. 8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and enLt for me to Ephron the son Zohar, That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his Je. 33. 22. + Heb. field; for tas much money as it keh.13.16. full mois worth he shall give it me, for tHeb.lip.ney. a possession of a burying-place Ich. 24.60. mMi. 1. 9. 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose 9, 16, 18. fch.34.20, up, and went together to "Beer-over.3, sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. 10. 24. Ru. ch. 26. 5. 4. ch.11.29. 20 ¶ And it came to pass after Pch.21.31. these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also borne children unto thy brother Nahor; 21 Huz his first-born, and Buz Job 1. 1. his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. 23 And Bethuel begat "Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear" to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. CHAPTER XXIII The age and death of Sarah, 1. 3 The purchase of Machpelah, 19 where Sarah was buried. ND Sarah was an hundred A and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. $Job 32.2. ch. 24.15. Called, Ro. 9. 10, Rebecca. 1860. 4. See 28a. 24.21-24. h Ex. 30. 15. Ez.45. 12. ch.25.9. & 49. 30, 2 And Sarah died in "Kirjath- Jos. 14. arba: the same is bHebron in 15. Ju. 1. the land of Canaan: and Abra-10. ham came to mourn for Sarah, bch.13.18. 31, 32. & and to weep for her. ver. 19. 9, 13. dAc. 7. 5. 3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, 4I am a stranger and a so- ch. 17. 8. journer with you: dgive me a 1 Ch. 29. possession of a burying-place 15.Ps.105. with you, that I may bury my 12. He.11. dead out of my sight. 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him. 16 Hear us, my lord; thou art fa mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. 7 And Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people 50. 13.Ac. 7. 16. among you. 10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the taudience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, 11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, 1 give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead. 12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land. 13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field: take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. 14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, 15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred hshekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham iJe. 32. 9. iweighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 17 ¶ And the field of Ephron, which wasin Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the fieldand the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure 18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. 19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. 20 And the field, and the cave that is therein were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, by the sons of Heth. |