Genesis 19:4

WEB

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

KJV

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Commentary

But before they lay down,.... Upon their beds to sleep; it was between supper time and bedtime that the following affair happened, while the angels were talking to Lot about the men of Sodom, and inquiring what sort of men the y were, as the Jewish writers (l) suggest: the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round about; the house of Lot, where the angels were: both old and young: the males of the city of every age; some that were past committing the sin they were so infamous for, as well as those that burned with that unnatural lust; some that could not be actors were willing to be spectators; and all were curious to see the lovely persons, that it was reported all over the city were seen to go into Lot's house: all the people from every quarter; all from one end of the city to the other, and from every corner in it: which shows the general corruption and depravity of the city, that it was so far from having ten righteous persons in it, that of the proper inhabitants of it, there was not, as Jarchi notes, one righteous person, no, not one. (l) Bereshit Rabba, ut supra. (sect. 50. fol. 44. 4.)