And he said [unto him], Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do [it], if I find thirty there.
And he said unto him, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak,…. He feared, through his importunity, he should be wearisome to him and incur his displeasure; this being often the case among men, especially when inferiors are soliciting their superiors, and, not content with one favour, are pressing for more:
Peradventure there shall thirty be found there; the abatement is larger than before; he only made an abatement of five at a time, now ten at once, and so he proceeds;
and he said, I will not do [it], if I find thirty there; not destroy the place for their sake.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 18:30 And he said [unto him], Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do [it], if I find thirty there.
Ver. 30. I will not do it, &c. ] If God so yielded to Abraham interceding for wicked Sodom, will he not hear us for his labouring Church? Joab never pleased David better, than when he sued to him for Absalom. What shall we think of God in like case? How angry is he with those that “help forward” the anger! Zec 1:15 How ready to answer those that speak to him for his Church, “with good words, and comfortable words!” Zec 1:13 Yea, should there be no praying Christians among us (as there are many thousands), yet there is hope, if any of another kingdom make intercession for us, as Abraham here did for Sodom, to the which he was a stranger.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 44:18, Jdg 6:39, Est 4:11-16, Job 40:4, Psa 9:12, Psa 10:17, Psa 89:7, Isa 6:5, Isa 55:8, Isa 55:9, Heb 12:28, Heb 12:29
Reciprocal: Gen 18:27 – I have Gen 18:32 – Oh Job 42:4 – Hear Ecc 5:2 – not rash Jer 30:21 – engaged
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 18:30. O let not the Lord be angry The importunity which believers use in their addresses to God is such, that if they were dealing with a man like themselves, they could not but fear that he would be angry with them. But he with whom we have to do is God and not man, and he is pleased when he is wrestled with. But why then did Abraham leave off asking, when he had prevailed so far as to get the place spared if there were but ten righteous in it? Either, 1st, Because he could not in modesty proceed any further, and being a good man himself, he had a charitable opinion of others, and thought there must be so many good men in all those cities, especially including Lot and his family. 2d, Because he owned that it deserved to perish if there were not so many: as the dresser of the vineyard (Luk 13:9) consented that the barren fig-tree should be cut down if one years trial more did not make it fruitful. Or, 3d, Which is most probable, because God restrained his spirit from asking any further. When God hath determined the ruin of a place, he forbids it to be prayed for. No doubt Abraham remembered Lot in his prayers; but his large and generous mind could not be content with Lots preservation, but aims at the preservation of the whole city; which when he saw to be doubtful or unlikely, he prayed for Lots deliverance out of the common destruction, as appears from Gen 19:29.