Gênesis 19
Kent Hughes · Citado em PreceptAustin
Gênesis 19
Hughes - Lot’s whimpering speech astounds us because he first acknowledged that he had found favor (grace) in God’s eyes and that God had kindly spared his life. And then Lot went on to state that he doubted God’s ability to preserve his life in the flight to the mountains! Unbelievably he had the nerve to ask God to send him to Zoar (Hebrew, “small”), which was a mini-Sodom itself. As Kidner well says, “Not even brimstone will make a pilgrim of him: he must have his little Sodom again if life is to be supportable.” We might think, Come on, God, strike this simpering, whimpering, wheedling weasel dead! But God astonished again by granting Lot his request. Such mercy and grace—even to people who fall so short of Noah and Abraham. Divine grace, not human righteousness, is the ultimate basis of salvation. One more astonishment: God spared Zoar because of righteous Lot—the one righteous man in town. Abraham’s intercession was answered in the preservation of Zoar. (Borrow Genesis: Beginning and Blessing page 274) NET NOTE on overtake - The Hebrew verb דָּבַק (dabaq) normally means “to stick to, to cleave, to join.” Lot is afraid he cannot outrun the coming calamity. Genesis 19:20 now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) that my life may be saved.” this: Ge 19:30 Pr 3:5-7 Am 3:6 and my: Ge 12:13 Ps 119:175 Isa 55:3 Genesis 19 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries LOT'S REQUEST now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape (malat; Lxx - sozo - be kept from harm) there (is it not small?) that my life (nephesh - soul; Lxx - psuche) may be saved (chayah; Lxx - zao - will live).” - What is sad is his life had already been saved once by the angels pulling him out of Sodom. The second sad aspect is that the angels had already told him to escape to the mountains (Ge 19:17), but he was not willing to accept God's will for his life but wanted to maintain his city lifestyle (and look where that has gotten him so far)! He is using the nearness of the town Zoar (like a "suburb of Sodom" or a "satellite sin city") as a reason to justify going to there instead of to the mountains. He wants to maintain a little taste of "little Sodom" even though that taste has already been "bitter" in "big Sodom!" Lot in his vain attempts to keep his life (and lifestyle) will lose everything he had worked so hard for in a moment of time! By the grace and mercy of God and by the skin of his teeth, Lot was saved from death (John mentions there is "a sin unto death" 1 John 5:16+ and here). Yes, his life was saved, but his life and his family’s lives were wasted from an eternal point of view and worst of all there is absolutely no evidence that any of Lot's family members will join us in heaven! Urban life had its icy fingers around his throat. -- Kenneth Gangel Derek Kidner observes, “Not even brimstone will make a pilgrim of him: he must have his little Sodom again if life is to be supportable” (Borrow Genesis p. 135). Jon Courson (See Jon Courson's Application Commentary: Volume 1) - “No thanks, Lord,” we say. “I know You’re calling me to a new elevation and a greater revelation, but, Lord, I’ve got clients to meet, a quiche in the oven, a dripping faucet to fix. Going to the mountain just doesn’t fit in my schedule right now.” “The winter has passed; the rain is gone; the flowers appear on the earth. Come away, my beloved,” said the bridegroom to His bride. “You go ahead,” answers the bride, “I’m going to snooze” (see Song of Solomon 2). That’s what the bride said. That’s what Lot said. That’s all too often what we say. H C Leupold calls this “a somewhat presumptuous plea by a weak and timid man. He does not seem to realize his extremity, nor to value sufficiently the undeserved favor bestowed upon him” (Borrow Exposition of Genesis - page 566) Bruce K. Waltke writes, “Lot is pleading that God spare Bela (ED: ANOTHER NAME FOR ZOAR - Ge 14:2+), one of the cities of the plain otherwise under God’s judgment (Ge 19:25). He argues that, since the walled village is small, its quantity of sin is less and/or it is not worth bothering with. His argument betrays a lack of faith, a jaded spiritual evaluation of justice, and an effete taste for depraved urbanity (see note on Ge 19:18). His selfish plea that God spare Zoar as a place for him to live without regard to righteousness functions as a foil to Abraham’s plea for Sodom on the basis of God’s compassion and righteousness” (Borrow Genesis: A Commentary - page 278) Genesis 19:21 He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken. I grant you this request also Ge 4:7 Job 42:8,9 Ps 34:15 102:17 145:19 Jer 14:10 Mt 12:20 Lu 11:8 Heb 2:17 4:15,16 which you have spoken: Ge 12:2 Ge 18:24 Genesis 19 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries THE LORD GRANTS LOT'S SELFISH REQUEST He said to him, “Behold (hinneh: Lxx - idou) I grant you this request also, not to overthrow (haphak; Lxx - katastrepho) the town of which you have spoken - The implication is that the town of Zoar which Lot alluded to was in the line of fire of the Lord's judgment. NET NOTE - Heb “And he said, ‘Look, I will grant.’ ” The order of the clauses has been rearranged for stylistic reasons. The referent of the speaker (“he”) is somewhat ambiguous: It could be taken as the angel to whom Lot has been speaking (so NLT; note the singular references in vv. 18–19), or it could be that Lot is speaking directly to the LORD here. Most English translations leave the referent of the pronoun unspecified and maintain the ambiguity. Sailhamer - A reminder of the importance of Abraham's prayer in chapter 18 can be seen in the fact that with Lot's request the actual circumstances envisioned in Abraham's prayer are realized when God saved the city on account of the righteous ones in it. God had promised not to destroy the city "on behalf of" the righteous in it (Ge18:26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32). So now, though Sodom was destroyed, Zoar was saved from the destruction on account of Lot (v.21). (Borrow The Pentateuch As Narrative page 172) Bob
Gênesis 19
Hughes has a great observation noting that "Her backward look was far more than momentary because the destruction of the cities did not begin until Lot and his daughters were safe in Zoar. Evidently she refused all encouragements to leave and lingered far behind. There were no angels to grasp her unwilling hand as the deathly rain rushed toward her." (Borrow Genesis: Beginning and Blessing page 274) Lot's wife should have been singing "I have decided to follow Jesus; no turning back; the cross before me; the world behind me." It is interesting that today in the Dead Sea region there are many pillars of salt. A number of these have from time to time been called “Lot’s wife” by the Arabs. NET NOTE - Longingly. Lot’s wife apparently identified with the doomed city and thereby showed lack of respect for God’s provision of salvation. She, like her daughters later, had allowed her thinking to be influenced by the culture of Sodom. Bob