And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city,…. Sodom is particularly mentioned because Lot dwelt there, and being the metropolis, and the city of greatest note, as Jarchi observes, it is put for the rest; and the sense is, if fifty righteous persons could be found in all the five cities, mercy should be shown them:
then will I spare all the place for their sakes; not Sodom only, but the whole country, of which Sodom was the chief; the Lord takes up and agrees to the number Abraham pitched upon, and grants the request he makes.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘And Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city then will I spare all for their sake.’
Yahweh confirms Abraham’s faith in His justice. If there are fifty righteous within the city all will be spared lest the fifty righteous be thought to be unfairly dealt with.
Gen 18:27-28 a
‘And Abraham answered and said, “See now, I have taken on me to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. It may be that there will lack five of the fifty righteous. Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?’
Abraham is aware of his temerity in speaking up and abases himself to Yahweh. For ‘dust and ashes”, a token of unfitness and unworthiness, compare Job 30:19. But it is noticeable that here he refers to Yahweh as ‘the Lord’. He is Lord of Creation, Lord of Egypt, Lord of Sodom, Lord of Abraham, Lord and Judge of all. Who then is he, Abraham, to dare to question him? There is nothing brazen about Abraham’s response. He recognises with Whom he deals. The title used emphasises this. It suggests the approach of a suppliant to one who judges. Abraham is not approaching Him as Yahweh the covenant God, for Sodom is not within the covenant, but as ‘the Lord’, the One Who is over all.
Gen 18:28 b
‘And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find there forty five”.’
Again Yahweh accepts the principle. If there are any grounds for mercy He will show it.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Gen 18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
Ver. 26. If I find fifty righteous. ] The saints are the salt of the earth, that keep the rest from rotting and putrifying.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Isa 6:13, Isa 10:22, Isa 19:24, Isa 65:8, Jer 5:1, Eze 22:30, Mat 24:22
Reciprocal: Gen 18:28 – If I Job 22:30 – He shall deliver the island of the innocent Isa 1:9 – we should
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom {m} fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
(m) God declares that his judgments were done with great mercy, even though all were so corrupt that not only fifty but ten righteous men could not be found there, and also that the wicked are spared for the sake of the righteous.