19:15 At dawn 1 the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, 2 or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!” 3
19:23 The sun had just risen 4 over the land as Lot reached Zoar. 5
1 tn Heb “When dawn came up.”
2 tn Heb “who are found.” The wording might imply he had other daughters living in the city, but the text does not explicitly state this.
3 tn Or “with the iniquity [i.e., punishment] of the city” (cf. NASB, NRSV).
4 sn The sun had just risen. There was very little time for Lot to escape between dawn (v. 15) and sunrise (here).
5 tn The juxtaposition of the two disjunctive clauses indicates synchronic action. The first action (the sun’s rising) occurred as the second (Lot’s entering Zoar) took place. The disjunctive clauses also signal closure for the preceding scene.
6 tn Here the Hebrew word צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah), usually translated “righteousness” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV, NLT; cf. NAB “justice”), has been rendered as “vindication” because it is the vindication of God’s people that is in view in the context. Cf. BDB 842 s.v. צְדָקָה 6; “righteousness as vindicated, justification, salvation, etc.”
7 sn The point of the metaphor of healing wings is unclear. The sun seems to be compared to a bird. Perhaps the sun’s “wings” are its warm rays. “Healing” may refer to a reversal of the injury done by evildoers (see Mal 3:5).
8 tn Heb “you will go out and skip about.”