Kejadian 14:8

14:8 Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and prepared for battle. In the Valley of Siddim they met ¹ 

Kejadian 14:10

14:10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. ²  When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, ³  but some survivors ⁴  fled to the hills. ⁵ 

Kejadian 19:17

19:17 When they had brought them outside, they ⁶  said, “Run ⁷  for your lives! Don’t look ⁸  behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! ⁹  Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

Kejadian 19:28-29

19:28 He looked out toward ¹⁰  Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. ¹¹  As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace. ¹² 

19:29 So when God destroyed ¹³  the cities of the region, ¹⁴  God honored ¹⁵  Abraham’s request. He removed Lot ¹⁶  from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed ¹⁷  the cities Lot had lived in.

Kejadian 33:18

33:18 After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near ¹⁸  the city.

Kejadian 37:32

37:32 Then they brought the special tunic to their father ¹⁹  and said, “We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

[14:8]  ¹ tn Heb “against.”

[14:10]  ² tn Heb “Now the Valley of Siddim [was] pits, pits of tar.” This parenthetical disjunctive clause emphasizes the abundance of tar pits in the area through repetition of the noun “pits.”

[14:10]  sn The word for “tar” (or “bitumen”) occurs earlier in the story of the building of the tower in Babylon (see Gen 11:3).

[14:10]  ³ tn Or “they were defeated there.” After a verb of motion the Hebrew particle שָׁם (sham) with the directional heh (שָׁמָּה, shammah) can mean “into it, therein” (BDB 1027 s.v. שָׁם).

[14:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “the rest.”

[14:10]  ⁵ sn The reference to the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah must mean the kings along with their armies. Most of them were defeated in the valley, but some of them escaped to the hills.

[19:17]  ⁶ tn Or “one of them”; Heb “he.” Several ancient versions (LXX, Vulgate, Syriac) read the plural “they.” See also the note on “your” in v. 19.

[19:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “escape.”

[19:17]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew verb translated “look” signifies an intense gaze, not a passing glance. This same verb is used later in v. 26 to describe Lot’s wife’s self-destructive look back at the city.

[19:17]  ⁹ tn Or “in the plain”; Heb “in the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[19:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[19:28]  ¹¹ tn Or “all the land of the plain”; Heb “and all the face of the land of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[19:28]  ¹² tn Heb “And he saw, and look, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.”

[19:28]  sn It is hard to imagine what was going on in Abraham’s mind, but this brief section in the narrative enables the reader to think about the human response to the judgment. Abraham had family in that area. He had rescued those people from the invasion. That was why he interceded. Yet he surely knew how wicked they were. That was why he got the number down to ten when he negotiated with God to save the city. But now he must have wondered, “What was the point?”

[19:29]  ¹³ tn The construction is a temporal clause comprised of the temporal indicator, an infinitive construct with a preposition, and the subjective genitive.

[19:29]  ¹⁴ tn Or “of the plain”; Heb “of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[19:29]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “remembered,” but this means more than mental recollection here. Abraham’s request (Gen 18:23-32) was that the Lord not destroy the righteous with the wicked. While the requisite minimum number of righteous people (ten, v. 32) needed for God to spare the cities was not found, God nevertheless rescued the righteous before destroying the wicked.

[19:29]  sn God showed Abraham special consideration because of the covenantal relationship he had established with the patriarch. Yet the reader knows that God delivered the “righteous” (Lot’s designation in 2 Pet 2:7) before destroying their world – which is what he will do again at the end of the age.

[19:29]  ¹⁶ sn God’s removal of Lot before the judgment is paradigmatic. He typically delivers the godly before destroying their world.

[19:29]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the overthrow when [he] overthrew.”

[33:18]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “in front of.”

[37:32]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they sent the special tunic and they brought [it] to their father.” The text as it stands is problematic. It sounds as if they sent the tunic on ahead and then came and brought it to their father. Some emend the second verb to a Qal form and read “and they came.” In this case, they sent the tunic on ahead.