Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament · Genesis Chapter 18

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Genesis Chapter 18

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GEN 18:20

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“The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah, yea it is great; and their sin, yea it is very grievous.” The cry is the appeal for vengeance or punishment, which ascends to heaven (Genesis 4:10). The כּי serves to give emphasis to the assertion, and is placed in the middle of the sentence to give the greater prominence to the leading thought (cf. Ewald, §330).

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