The willing submission of the elders and nobles implies a deep moral degradation among the Israelites, which was the fruit of their lapse into idol…

And the men of his city ... did. —The pains taken in the invention of this foul plot, and the ready acquiescence of the r…

And the men of the city, even the elders and the nobles who
were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jez…

When, instead of a suitable helper, a man has an agent for Satan in the form of an artful, unprincipled, yet beloved wife, fatal effects may be exp…