Genesis 19:1
1The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while ▼▼ The disjunctive clause is temporal here, indicating what Lot was doing at the time of their arrival.
Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. ▼▼ Heb “sitting in the gate of Sodom.” The phrase “the gate of Sodom” has been translated “the city’s gateway” for stylistic reasons.
▼▼ The expression sitting in the city’s gateway may mean that Lot was exercising some type of judicial function (see the use of the idiom in 2 Sam 19:8; Jer 26:10; 38:7; 39:3).
When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.
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