Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] therein?
24. spare the place ] The word in the Heb. means literally “and take away for the place,” i.e. its guilt, and so “forgive,” as in Num 14:19.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Within the city, i.e. in the cities concerned, as appears by Gen 18:20, and Gen 19:25; the singular number for the plural, as is frequent, as Gen 3:22; 1Ch 10:1, compared with 1Sa 31:1, and oft elsewhere. Or the city Sodom alone is mentioned, but the rest are comprehended under it, either because of its eminency, or because they were subject or subordinate to it, as may seem probable from the history, Gen 14:1-24.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city,…. Within the Pentapolis, which consisted of five cities; and so ten righteous persons are supposed to be in each, as Jarchi observes, agreeably to the Targum of Jonathan;
“perhaps there may be fifty righteous persons in the city who pray before thee, ten for every city, answerable to the five cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar:”
wilt thou also destroy, and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] therein? here Abraham becomes an advocate and intercessor for all the inhabitants of the place, even the wicked, that they might not be destroyed, but spared and be delivered from impending ruin, for the sake of the fifty righteous among them; before he seemed only concerned for the righteous, lest they should perish with the rest, and that some method might be found out and taken to distinguish them from them; but here he expresses himself in favour of the wicked also, that they might be spared, provided such a number of righteous ones was found among them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
24. Peradventure there be fifty He begins his intercession with this moderate number . Surely if half a hundred righteous people are living in the city, for their sake it should be spared .
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Gen 18:24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] therein?
Ver. 24. Peradventure there be fifty righteous. ] Charity presumes the best, hopes the best. The disciples could not imagine that Judas was so very a traitor: each one suspects himself sooner than him. And when our Saviour said, “What thou doest do quickly”; they thought he had meant of making provision, or giving something to the poor. Joh 13:27-29
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Peradventure = perhaps.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
there: Gen 18:32, Isa 1:9, Jer 5:1, Mat 7:13, Mat 7:14
spare: Act 27:24
Reciprocal: Gen 19:21 – that Jos 6:23 – out Rahab 1Sa 23:10 – destroy the city 2Ch 12:12 – also in Judah things went well Job 35:8 – may profit Jer 27:18 – let them