...Peradventure there shall lack five of tlie fifty righteous : wilt thou destroy all the city for lack o/fivel And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. 2!i Anil he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And...

...and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: 28 re the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them ; who (or luck of five '? And he said, if I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. 29 And he spake...

...If there lack five of the fifty, wilt thou destroy the city for the lack of five? what did God say? He said, if I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it, When he prayed again, and said if there are forty there? what was the answer? He said, I will not do...

...elect's sake those days, shall be shortened. Matt, xxiv. 22. [AM 2107. 27 sakes. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but Just and 28 ashes: Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all...

...have done. See Luke xi. 5 — 13. The characteristics of Abraham's prayer were, 1. Great reverence : " Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes." 2. It was importunate : he pleads, first, if there were but fifty righteous,...

...faithful, when pleading that the guilty city of Sodom might be spared—" And Abraham answered and said, Behold now I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes." And again, " Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak." And finally, " Oh let not the Lord be...

...one that knew his distance, expressing himself with wonder at the favour done him, (Gen. xviii. 27.) Behold, now I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. When the covenant of royalty was confirmed to David, and God regarded him according to the estate of...

...with deep reverence and godly humility, when he was interceding for Sodom. " Behold now," says he, " I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. Oh ! let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Oh ! let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak...

...there •shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will lot do tí, if I find thirty there. 31 And he l + mh B A B2 U @ r $ ; @ )@ . ` ~Y$ B΀o : Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it lor twenty's sake....

...of the nature of the man, whom a little before he had received in his tent, when he says to him, " Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes." It is the same Lord, whom Abraham saw in this manner, that appeared to...