Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
The men of Sodom were wicked - raim , from , ra , to break in pieces, destroy, and afflict; meaning persons who broke the established order of things, destroyed and confounded the distinctions between right and wrong, and who afflicted and tormented both themselves and others. And sinners, chattaim , from chata , to miss the mark, to step wrong, to miscarry; the same as ̔ in Greek, from a, negative, and to hit a mark; so a sinner is one who is ever aiming at happiness and constantly missing his mark; because, being wicked - radically evil within, every affection and passion depraved and out of order, he seeks for happiness where it never can be found, in worldly honors and possessions, and in sensual gratifications, the end of which is disappointment, affliction, vexation, and ruin. Such were the companions Lot must have in the fruitful land he had chosen. This, however, amounts to no more than the common character of sinful man; but the people of Sodom were exceedingly sinful and wicked before, or against, the Lord - they were sinners of no common character; they excelled in unrighteousness, and soon filled up the measure of their iniquities. See Genesis 19.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Genesis 18:20
Exodus 29:14
Leviticus 7:38
Numbers 19:12
John 8:46
Romans 4:7
Romans 5:6
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