Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. Two angels] The two referred to chap. xviii. 22.
Sat in the gate] Probably, in order to prevent unwary travelers from being entrapped by his wicked townsmen, he waited at the gate of the city to bring the strangers he might meet with to his own house, as well as to transact his own business. Or, as the gate was the place of judgment, he might have been sitting there as magistrate to hear and determine disputes.
Bowed himself] Not through religious reverence, for he did not know the quality of his guests; but through the customary form of civility. See on verses chap. xviii. 3-5 of the preceding chapter.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-29 - Lot was good, but there was not one more of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile. Care wa therefore taken for saving Lot and his family. Lot lingered; he trifled. Thus many who are under convictions about their spiritual state, and the necessity of a change, defer that needful work. The salvation of the most righteous men is of God's mercy, not by their ow merit. We are saved by grace. God's power also must be acknowledged in bringing souls out of a sinful state If God had not been merciful to us, our lingering had been our ruin. Lot must flee for his life. He must not hanker after Sodom. Such commands as these are given to thos who, through grace, are delivered out of a sinful state and condition Return not to sin and Satan. Rest not in self and the world. Reac toward Christ and heaven, for that is escaping to the mountain, shor of which we must not stop. Concerning this destruction, observe that it is a revelation of the wrath of God against sin and sinners of all ages. Let us learn from hence the evil of sin, and its hurtful nature it leads to ruin.
Original Hebrew ויבאו935 שׁני8147 המלאכים4397 סדמה5467 בערב6153 ולוט3876 ישׁב3427 בשׁער8179 סדם5467 וירא7200 לוט3876 ויקם6965 לקראתם7125 וישׁתחו7812 אפים639 ארצה׃776
