Genesis 18:23 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 18:23

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

KJV

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ASV

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?

WEB

Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

YLT

And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, `Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked?

DBT

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also cause the righteous to perish with the wicked?

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Cross-references

26 verses on the floor

Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Numbers 16:22
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Jeremiah 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 Samuel 24:17
And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.

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Sarah laughed within herself - It was not a laughter of faith, like Abraham's, chap. xvii, 17, but a laughter of doubting and distrust. The great objection which Sarah could not get over was her age. I am waxed old, and past child-bearing in a course of nature, especially having been hitherto barren, and which magnifies the difficulty, My Lord is old also.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

The appearance of God to Abraham seems to have had in it more of freedom and familiarity, and less of grandeur and majesty, than those we have hitherto read of; and therefore more resembles that great visit which, in the fullness of time, the Son of God was to make to the world, when the Word would be flesh, and appear as one of us.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), as most think, or whether the third left them before they came to Sodom, and the Lord before whom Abraham stood was the shechinah, or that appearance of the divine glory which Abraham had formerly seen and conversed with, is uncertain.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Abraham drew near, and said, &c.--The scene described is full of interest and instruction--showing in an unmistakable manner the efficacy of prayer and intercession.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Whenever we draw near to God, it becomes us reverently to acknowledge the vast distance that there is between us and Him. He is the Lord of glory, we are worms of the earth.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

Walks1

Threads & trails this verse walks in

Trail

Prayers of the BibleThe walk opens with intercession: a man draws near and appeals to the Judge's own justice.

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