Genesis 18:26
Genesis · Old Testament · Chapter 18
“And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”Genesis 18:26
What Does Genesis 18:26 Mean?
Genesis 18:26 is found in the book of Genesis, chapter 18, verse 26 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 10 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (10)
These passages are connected to Genesis 18:26 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Job 22:30“He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.”Jeremiah 5:1“Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.”Matthew 24:22“And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”Isaiah 65:8“Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.”Ezekiel 22:30“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.”Genesis 18:28“Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.”Isaiah 6:13“But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.”Isaiah 10:22“For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.”Isaiah 19:24“In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:”Isaiah 1:9“Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”
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