Genesis 19:13

WEB

for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it."

KJV

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

Commentary

For we will destroy this place,.... Or "we are destroying it" (p), are about to do it, and will quickly and immediately do it: because the cry of them is waxen g reat before the face of the Lord; the cry of the sins of the inhabitants of it, which were many, and openly, and daringly committed, and reached to heaven, and called for immediate vengeance and punishment: and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it; by which they discovered themselves to be angels, and what their business was, to destroy Sodom; and which confutes the notion of the Jews, that they were sent on different errands; whereas it is clear from hence, these two were sent to do one and the same thing; See Gill on Gen 18:2 . (p) "disperdentes nos", Montanus; "nos perdituri mox sumus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so Drusius, Schmidt.