Genesis 19 · Verse 27

Genesis 19:27

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
Genesis 19:27, King James Version

Genesis 19:27 in other translations

BSBEarly the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
WEBAbraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
ASVAnd Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Jehovah:
YLTAnd Abraham riseth early in the morning, unto the place where he hath stood before the face of Jehovah;
DARBYAnd Abraham rose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Jehovah;
BBEAnd Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:
WebsterAnd Abraham rose early in the morning, to the place were he stood before the LORD:

What does Genesis 19:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
27. Abraham gat up early in the morning, &c.--Abraham was at this time in Mamre, near Hebron, and a traveller last year verified the truth of this passage. "From the height which overlooks Hebron, where the patriarch stood, the observer at the present day has an extensive view spread out before him towards the Dead Sea. A cloud of smoke rising from the plain would be visible to a person at Hebron now, and could have been, therefore, to Abraham as he looked toward Sodom on the morning of its destruction by God" [Hackett]. It must have been an awful sight, and is frequently alluded to in Scripture (De 29:23; Is 13:19; Jude 7). "The plain which is now covered by the Salt or Dead Sea shows in the great difference of level between the bottoms of the northern and southern ends of the lake--the latter being thirteen feet and the former thirteen hundred--that the southern end was of recent formation, and submerged at the time of the fall of the cities" [Lynch].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 Abraham gat up early in the morning - Anxious to know what was the effect of the prayers which he had offered to God the preceding day; what must have been his astonishment when he found that all these cities, with the plain which resembled the garden of the Lord, Gen 13:10, burnt up, and the smoke ascending like the smoke of a furnace, and was thereby assured that even God himself could not discover ten righteous persons in four whole cities!

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 19:1-29

Lot was good, but there was not one more of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile. Care was therefore taken for saving Lot and his family. Lot lingered; he trifled. Thus many who are under convictions about their spiritual state, and the necessity of a change, defer that needful work. The salvation of the most righteous men is of God's mercy, not by their own merit. We are…

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Genesis 19:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיַּשְׁכֵּ֥םvai.yash.Kemand he rose earlyH7925
אַבְרָהָ֖ם'av.ra.HamAbrahamH85
בַּבֹּ֑קֶרba.Bo.kerin the morningH1242
אֶל\־'el-toH413
הַ֨מָּק֔וֹםha.ma.Komthe placeH4725
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whereH834
עָ֥מַד'A.madhe had stoodH5975
שָׁ֖םshamthereH8033
אֶת\־'et-withH854
פְּנֵ֥יpe.Nei[the] face ofH6440
יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 19:27

  • Habakkuk 2:1

    I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

  • Psalms 5:3

    My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

  • Hebrews 2:1

    Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

  • Genesis 18:22-33

    And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? …

  • Ezekiel 16:49-50

    Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Ps 5:3
to the.
18:22-33; Eze 16:49,50; Hab 2:1; Heb 2:1

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Context

  • Genesis 19:26

    But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

  • Genesis 19:27

    And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

  • Genesis 19:28

    And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

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Genesis 19:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y subió Abraham por la mañana al lugar donde había estado delante de Jehová:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Abraham se leva de bon matin, et vint au lieu où il s’était tenu devant l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Abraham machte sich des Morgens früh auf an den Ort, wo er vor Jehova gestanden hatte;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Abraham autem consurgens mane, ubi steterat prius cum Domino,