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They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."
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The Meaning of 'Know Them'
Commentators are clear that the mob's demand to 'know' the visitors was a euphemism for homosexual assault. Scholars like John Gill state the men of Sodom were 'open and impudent,' not hiding their intent to commit this 'unnatural sin.' This clarifies that their goal was not identification but violent, sexual abuse.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
גשׁ־ < הלאה (gesh - hāl'âh), meaning “approach to a distant point,” or “stand back.”
סנורים (san'evērı̂ym
16th Century
Protestant
Where are the men? Although it was their intention shamefully to abuse the strangers for their outrageous appetite, yet, in words, they pr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they called unto Lot With a loud voice, that he might hear, they being in the street, and he within doors; and perhaps the…
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Lot was good, but there was no one else of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile. Therefore, care was t…
