Genesis 19:31 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 19:31

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

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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:

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (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.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

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.

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.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתֹּ֧אמֶר	va.To.mer	and <she> said	H559 →
הַבְּכִירָ֛ה	ha.be.khi.Rah	the firstborn	H1067 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַצְּעִירָ֖ה	ha.tze.'i.Rah	the young	H6810 →
אָבִ֣ינוּ	'a.Vi.nu	father our	H1 →
זָקֵ֑ן	za.Ken	he is old	H2204 →
וְאִ֨ישׁ	ve.'Ish	and [is] a man	H376 →
אֵ֤ין	'ein	there not	H369 →
בָּאָ֙רֶץ֙	ba.'A.retz	in the land	H776 →
לָב֣וֹא	la.Vo'	to go	H935 →
עָלֵ֔ינוּ	'a.Lei.nu	on us	H5921 →
כְּדֶ֖רֶךְ	ke.De.rekh	according to [the] way of	H1870 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הָאָֽרֶץ׃	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →

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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…
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.
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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…
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…
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.

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