Genesis 13:10 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | KJV

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

פרזי perı̂zı̂y — Perizzi, “descendant of Paraz.” פרז pārāz — “leader,” or inhabitant of the plain or open…

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

The plain of Jordan. —This word, Ciccar, literally means the circuit, or, as it is translated in Matthew 3:5,

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century

Protestant

16th Century

And Lot lifted up his eyes. Just as Abram's equity was worthy of considerable praise, so Lot's inconsideration, which Moses describes here…

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

And Lot lifted up his eyes
He immediately fell in with Abram's proposal, but had not the ingenuity to return back th…

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

When Abram offered Lot the choice, he immediately accepted it. Passion and selfishness make people rude. Lot looked to the goodness of the land; th…

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