Genesis 13:13

11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other.

12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot ^adwelt in the cities of the plain and ^bpitched his tent even as far as Sodom.

13 But the men of Sodom ^awere exceedingly wicked and ^bsinful against the Lord.

14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot ^ahad separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—^bnorthward, southward, eastward, and westward;

15 for all the land which you see ^aI give to you and ^byour descendants forever.

16 And ^aI will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Genesis 13:13

The men of Sodom were wicked - raim , from , ra , to break in pieces, destroy, and afflict; meaning persons who broke the established order of things, destroyed and confounded the distinctions between right and wrong, and who afflicted and tormented both themselves and others. And sinners, chattaim , from chata , to miss the mark, to step wrong, to miscarry; the same as ̔ in Greek, from a, negative, and to hit a mark; so a sinner is one who is ever aiming at happiness and constantly missing his mark; because, being wicked - radically evil within, every affection and passion depraved and out of order, he seeks for happiness where it never can be found, in worldly honors and possessions, and in sensual gratifications, the end of which is disappointment, affliction, vexation, and ruin. Such were the companions Lot must have in the fruitful land he had chosen. This, however, amounts to no more than the common character of sinful man; but the people of Sodom were exceedingly sinful and wicked before, or against, the Lord - they were sinners of no common character; they excelled in unrighteousness, and soon filled up the measure of their iniquities. See Genesis 19.

Other Adam Clarke entries containing Genesis 13:13:

Genesis 18:20
Exodus 29:14
Leviticus 7:38
Numbers 19:12
John 8:46
Romans 4:7
Romans 5:6

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