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8. a) How many daughters did Lot have at this time?
He had at least four daughters, at least two which are married. (I say at least, because the text doesn’t specify the number except for the two living at home.)
8. b) What does “who knew not a man” mean?
This means that these daughters never had sex with a man; they are virgins.
8. c) Why would Lot include their virginity when describing them?
This makes it more appealing to some men who are violent.
8. d) Why would Lot desire to make his daughters at home seem more appealing to rapists?
Lot is attempting to steer these rapists from the two sojourners. He has no idea that the two sojourners are angelic beings. Had he known that, he wouldn’t have invited them to his home, seeing that angels have no need of food, drink, shelter, protection, or human help.
8. e) Was Lot doing a righteous act by potentially turning over his virgin daughters to rapists in the pursuit of the protection of two male sojourners?
The text elsewhere verifies that Lot is righteous:
2 Peter 2:6 And having reduced the cities of Sodom and Amorrah to ashes with an overthrow, He condemned, having set an under-showing [to those] being about to live ungodly! 7And He delivered righteous Lot oppressed by the conduct of the unanchored-[ones] in licentiousness. 8For through seeing and hearing day by day, the righteous-[one] dwelling among them tormented [his] righteous being with [their] anti-Teaching works.
Lot had daily suffered, seeing and hearing the violence of these unanchored ones (without a yoke: no anchor of morality for the soul) and their licentiousness (living as if one has license to sin).
Please consider the following when attempting to answer the question posted here:
Lot knew very well that if these rapists managed to break into the house, they would rape and kill everyone in the house. If a judge is attacked, what violent folks don’t desire are witnesses who can testify later regarding perpetrators.
Lot knew that these men were very angry, and wouldn’t show compassion for anyone who got in their way.
Lot determined that if all were going to be killed, it is better if two die rather than all die.
Lot knew the justice of Yehovah: that the sojourner must be protected even at the expense of the entire family; else Yehovah will take vengeance for the sakes of sojourners. Lot had knowledge of the justice and Teachings of Yehovah, which copies we don’t have; but Yehovah’s Teachings do not change over the centuries. Truth is absolute; Truth doesn’t change.
Lot indeed did the righteous act by potentially turning over his virgin daughters to rapists in the pursuit of the protection of two male sojourners. He was doing what the entire city’s population of Sodom should have been doing: protecting the sojourners at all costs.
During the Tribulation, this price will be paid by a number of folks who will protect sojourners at the appearance of traitorism against their own families and friends; they will be doing right. Those who choose to instead do what is safer for their families and their friends, regardless of the plight of sojourners will everlastingly lose their lives and the lives of their families and friends. That is the Godly morality of the Bible.
8. f) What is Lot declaring when he states, “I will cause them to exit unto you”?
He is stating that they will obey him, and will do this not by their will to go out to them. He is offering the most precious ones he owns to them in order to save the lives of the sojourners.
8. g) Did Lot know that the sojourners will be killed, and not ‘just’ raped?
Lot had previous experience with these behaviours. Though the text doesn’t say so, other sojourners had been found dead. This is why Lot determined to take them in in the first place. This wasn’t Lot’s first rodeo.
8. h) What did the above demonstrate about the characters of Lot’s two daughters?
They would have gone, had their father told them to exit to these rapists. Those daughters well-knew the events of the nights in Sodom! They were not shielded from that knowledge.
8. i) What does Lot mean by, "do ye to them as is good in your eyes"?
This is saying to those men that they have no limits on what they will decide to do to his daughters. (Lot is appealing to their consciences.)
8. j) What does, “Only don’t do a speech to these men” mean?
These men refer to the sojourners. Since a speech is something that describes a thought, an action, history, the future, whatever, if they don’t do a speech to these men, that indicates that they have done nothing at all to these men; there is nothing to later speak about what they did.
8. k) What are these beams that this verse describes?
It refers to the supports of the house: the roof supports, the ceiling supports, the wall supports, the doorframe supports, etc.
8. l) What does “come into the shadow of my beams” mean?
It means to come into the house, and out of the sun or moon light.
8. m) What does “for concerning establishment” mean?
If establishment refers to custom, Lot is stating the custom that was established regarding sojourners.
By taking the sojourners in, that establishes the sojourners in a safe location.
9. a) What does “Near thou beyond” mean?
It is a strong way of saying, move back there. In other words, “Get the hell out of the way!”
9. b) Did Lot do so?
No! He refused to move out of the way.
9. c) Who is meant by, “the one,” in, “The one came to sojourn”?
This is a reference to Lot. It is a very derogatory statement made in all sarcasm. This also indicates that Lot wasn’t ‘from around here.’ He is a foreigner, anyway!
9. d) What is meant by, “And he judged, judging”?
Lot was truly placed as a judge of the city of Sodom! Not only did he judge, but he also judged! Not only did he do formal rulings, but he also found fault with locals who were violent!
9. e) Who are they in, “And they said,” and to whom are they speaking?
They are the bad guy-rapists. They are speaking to each other! They are prodding each other to violence.
9. f) Identify the pronouns in, “Now will we bad-do to thee from them”:
We (in, "Now will be bad-do"): We are the bad guys, the rapists.
Thee (in, "to thee"): This is Lot.
Them (in, "from them"): They are the sojourners.
The homosexual rapists are threatening Lot to bad do more to Lot than to the sojourners. (Thus, they will torture Lot to death.)
9. g) Did these men from the edge receive the appeal of Lot?
No. This is a warning to readers: Attempting to appeal to a mob set on violence is too often useless.
9. h) If they very much pressed into Lot, what were they physically doing?
They were attempting to push their way in by pushing Lot out of the way.
9. i) Why do they feel that they must push Lot out of the way?
He is standing between the man and the door. He was told to move; and Lot didn’t move. I propose that the door opened outward.
9. j) What does they neared to break the door mean?
The mob was pressing in to break the door down in order to get past the door. (Had the door opened inward, they wouldn’t have had to break down the door; just the latch on the door.)
9. k) How many were in this mob?
There were enough that they could surround the house! The number must have been more than 20; perhaps 50 persons; yet, these are just the folks from the edge.
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