Luke 17:28
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luke 17:28 in other translations
| BSB | It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. |
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| WEB | Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; |
| ASV | Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; |
| YLT | in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; |
| DARBY | and in like manner as took place in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; |
| BBE | In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; |
| Webster | Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; |
What does Luke 17:28 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 17:26-30
26-30. eat ... married ... planted--all the ordinary occupations and enjoyments of life. Though the antediluvian world and the cities of the plain were awfully wicked, it is not their wickedness, but their worldliness, their unbelief and indifference to the future, their unpreparedness, that is here held up as a warning. Note.--These recorded events of Old Testament history--denied or explained away nowadays by not…
Barnes' Notes
The same day, &c. Gen 19:23-25.
It rained. The word here used might have been rendered he rained. In Genesis it is said that the Lord did it.
Fire and brimstone. God destroyed Sodom on account of its great wickedness. He took vengeance on it for its sins; and the example of Sodom is set before men to deter them from committing great transgressions, and as a full proof that God will punish the guilty. See Jude 1:7, Isa 1:10, Jer 23:14. Yet, in overthrowing it, he used natural means. He is not to be supposed to have created fire and brimstone for the occasion, but to have directed the natural means at his disposal for their overthrow; as he did not create the waters to drown the world, but merely broke up the fountains of the great deep and opened the windows of heaven. Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim (De 29:23), were four great cities, on a plain where is now the Dead Sea, at the south-east of Palestine, and into which the river Jordan flows. They were built on ground which abounded, doubtless, as all that region now does, in bitumen or naphtha, which is easily kindled, and which burns with great intensity. The phrase "fire and brim stone" is a Hebrew form of expression, denoting sulphurous fire, or fire having the smell of sulphur; and may denote a volcanic eruption, or any burning like that of naphtha. There is no improbability in supposing either that this destruction was accomplished by lightning, which ignited the naphtha, or that it was a volcanic eruption, which, by direction of God, overthrew the wicked cities.
From heaven. By command of God, or from the sky. To the people of Sodom it had the appearance of coming from heaven, as all volcanic eruptions would have. Hundreds of towns have been overthrown in this way, and all by the agency of God. He rules the elements, and makes them his instruments, at his pleasure, in accomplishing the destruction of the wicked.
(u) "Lot went out of Sodom" Gen 19:23,24 (v) "When the Son of Man" 2Thes 1:7
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 17:20-37
The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of Divine grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly, and in what state the judgments of God, which they had been warned of, found them. Here is shown what a dreadful surprise this destruction will be to the secure and sensual. Thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is…
Luke 17:28 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 17:28
- 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.
- Genesis 18:20-21
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
- James 5:1-5
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. …
- Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
- Genesis 19:1-28
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: …
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Context
- Luke 17:27
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
- Luke 17:28
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
- Luke 17:29
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Asimismo también como fué en los días de Lot; comían, bebían, compraban, vendían, plantaban, edificaban; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | De même aussi, comme il arriva aux jours de Lot: on mangeait, on buvait, on achetait, on vendait, on plantait, on bâtissait; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gleicherweise auch, wie es geschah in den Tagen Lots: sie aßen, sie tranken, sie kauften, sie verkauften, sie pflanzten, sie bauten; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Similiter sicut factum est in diebus Lot: edebant et bibebant, emebant et vendebant, plantabant et ædificabant: |