Day 18

Genesis 19-21

Genesis 19

GENESIS 19

The contents of this chapter are Lot’s entertainment of two angels that came to Sodom, Ge 19:1; the rude behaviour of the men of Sodom towards them, who for it were smote with blindness, Ge 19:4; the deliverance of Lot, his wife and two daughters, by means of the angels he entertained, Ge 19:12; the sparing of the city of Zoar at the entreaty of Lot, to which he was allowed to flee, Ge 19:18; the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, Ge 19:23; Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt for looking back, Ge 19:26; Abraham’s view of the conflagration of the cities, Ge 19:28; Lot’s betaking himself to a mountain, and dwelling in a cave with his two daughters, by whom he had two sons, the one called Moab, and the other Benammi, Ge 19:30.

GENESIS 20

This chapter relates the removal of Abraham to Gerar, Ge 20:1; the king of Gerar’s taking to him Sarah, whom Abraham had called his sister, Ge 20:2; who is rebuked of God for it in a dream, Ge 20:3; for which he makes an apology that is admitted, only he is ordered to restore to Abraham his wife, Ge 20:4; and accordingly early in the morning he called his servants, and acquainted them with what had happened, Ge 20:8; and then sent for Abraham, and expressed his resentment at his usage of him, Ge 20:9; which Abraham defended as well as he could, Ge 20:10; the issue of all which was, great kindness was shown to Abraham, and his wife restored to him, though with a reproof to her from the king, Ge 20:14; upon which Abraham prayed for the healing of Abimelech and his family, in which he was heard and answered, Ge 20:17.

GENESIS 21

This chapter gives an account of the conception, birth, circumcision, and weaning of Isaac, Ge 21:1; of the mocking of Ishmael, and of the casting out of him and his mother from Abraham’s house, at the request of Sarah, which, though grievous to Abraham, he complied with at the direction of God, Ge 21:9; of the provision Abraham made for their departure, and of the supply they met with in the wilderness from God, where Ishmael was brought up, and where he married, Ge 21:14; and of a covenant between Abraham and Abimelech, king of Gerar, Ge 21:22; and of Abraham’s planting a grove, and calling on the name of the Lord, Ge 21:33; and the chapter is closed with this observation, that Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days, Ge 21:34.

Taken from John Gill’s Exposition of the Bible, published roughly around 1748-1760.