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Genesis 19:31

in Genesis 19

One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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:

KJV

And the firstborn 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:

This verse in Genesis 19

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Our father is old - And consequently not likely to re-marry; and there is not a man in the earth - none left, according to their opinion in all the land of Canaan, of their own family and kindred; and they might think it unlawful to match with others, such as the inhabitants of Zoar, who they knew had been devoted to destruction as well as those of Sodom and Gomorrah, and were only saved at the earnest request of their father; and probably while they lived among them they found them ripe enough for punishment, and therefore would have thought it both dangerous and criminal to have formed any matrimonial connections with them.

This site's exposition

Our father is old

on Genesis 19:31-33

The older daughter says no man is left in the land for them. They get him drunk with wine, and the firstborn goes in that night. Noah's story after the flood runs the same way, wine, a father shamed by his children, and nations born out of it. Genesis sets the account down and passes no sentence on it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The great sin that Lot and his daughters were guilty of, when they were in this desolate place. His daughters laid a very wicked plot to bring him to sin; and theirs was, doubtless, the greater guilt.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, [1.] The sight of God's most tremendous judgments upon sinners will not of itself, without the grace of God, restrain evil hearts from evil practices: one would wonder how the fire of lust could possibly kindle upon those, who had so lately been the eye-witnesses of Sodom's flames. [2.] Solitude has its temptations as well as company, and particularly to uncleanness.
And the firstborn said unto the younger,....

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַתֹּ֧אמֶרand <she> said

    vatomerH559 →5305 times

  • הַבְּכִירָ֛הthe firstborn

    habekhirahH1067 →6 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַצְּעִירָ֖הthe young

    hatzeirahH6810 →23 times

  • אָבִ֣ינוּfather our

    ʾavinuH1 →1212 times

  • זָקֵ֑ןhe is old

    zakenH2204 →27 times

  • וְאִ֨ישׁand [is] a man

    veishH376 →1663 times

  • אֵ֤יןthere not

    ʾeinH369 →789 times

  • בָּאָ֙רֶץ֙in the land

    baaretzH776 →2504 times

  • לָב֣וֹאto go

    lavo'H935 →2568 times

  • עָלֵ֔ינוּon us

    ʾaleinuH5921 →5755 times

  • כְּדֶ֖רֶךְaccording to [the] way of

    kederekhH1870 →707 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָאָֽרֶץ׃the earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 6:4

    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 13:33

      We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

    • 1 Samuel 17:4

      Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,

    • Deuteronomy 3:11

      (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

    • 2 Samuel 21:15–22

      Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.

    • Deuteronomy 2:20–21

      (That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

  • Through

    Isaiah 4:1

    In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 30:23

      and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.

    • Isaiah 2:17

      So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 25:5

    When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty…

    it leads to

    • Matthew 22:24

      “Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

Lot Flees as Sodom and Gomorrah Burn — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Lot Flees as Sodom and Gomorrah Burn — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.