Genesis - 14:12



12 They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 14:12.

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And Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his substance.
And they took Lot and his property, Abram's brother's son, and departed. For he dwelt in Sodom.
and they take Lot, Abram's brother's son (seeing he is dwelling in Sodom), and his substance, and go away.
And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelled in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.
along with both Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who lived in Sodom, and his substance.
Ceperunt quoque Lot et substantiam ejus, filium fratris Abram, et abierunt, quia ipse habitabat in Sedom.

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And they took Lot. It is doubtful whether Lot remained at home while others went to the battle, and was there captured by the enemy; or whether he had been compelled to take arms with the rest of the people. As, however, Moses does not mention him till he speaks of the plundering of the city, the conjecture is probable, that at the conclusion of the battle, he was taken at home, unarmed. We here see, first, that sufferings are common to the good and the evil; then, that the more closely we are connected with the wicked and the ungodly, when God pours down his vengeance on them, the more quickly does the scourge come upon us.

They took Lot, etc. - The people, being exceedingly wicked, had provoked God to afflict them by means of those marauding kings; and Lot also suffered, being found in company with the workers of iniquity. Every child remembers the fable of the Geese and Cranes; the former, being found feeding where the latter were destroying the grain, were all taken in the same net. Let him that readeth understand.

And they (f) took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
(f) The godly are plagued many times with the wicked: therefore their company is dangerous.

And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son,.... The son of Haran, his elder brother, who was now, as the Jews say (x), fifty years of age:
who dwelt in Sodom, or near it, in the country adjacent to it, see Genesis 13:12; and so being a neighbour of the men of Sodom, and a sojourner among them, he partakes of their punishment; and this was a just correction of him for choosing to dwell among such a people: and they took
his goods, and departed; as him and his family, so all his substance, his cattle, wealth, and riches of every sort, and went off with it: Eupolemus (y), an Heathen writer, makes mention of this circumstance in his relation of this war, and says, that the Armenians, as he calls the four kings, baring conquered the Phoenicians, carried away captive the brother's son of Abram.
(x) Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 77. 1. (y) Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 17. p. 418.

they took Lot . . . and his goods, and departed--How would the conscience of that young man now upbraid him for his selfish folly and ingratitude in withdrawing from his kind and pious relative! Whenever we go out of the path of duty, we put ourselves away from God's protection, and cannot expect that the choice we make will be for our lasting good.

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