What was Lot thinking when he said in Genesis 19:
What was Lot thinking when he offered his virgin daughters to the Sodomites?
He wasn't thinking clearly. He didn't know what else to do.
Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament:8 "Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
Matthew Poole's Commentary:Lot went out to them, shut the door behind him to protect his guests, and offered to give his virgin daughters up to them. ... In his anxiety, Lot was willing to sacrifice to the sanctity of hospitality his duty as a father, which ought to have been still more sacred, "and committed the sin of seeking to avert sin by sin." Even if he expected that his daughters would suffer no harm, as they were betrothed to Sodomites (Genesis 19:14), the offer was a grievous violation of his paternal duty.
Most commentaries agree that Lot was wrong to offer his daughters, but his act was understandable given the extenuating circumstances.he yielded to one sin to prevent another, contrary to Romans 3:8, and exposed his daughters’ chastity, which he was obliged to preserve, and which indeed he had no power to expose, especially seeing they were betrothed to other men, Genesis 19:14. But it is some extenuation of his sin that it proceeded from his great charity and kindness to strangers, and that he was at this time under a great perturbation and discomposure of mind.
What was Lot thinking when he offered his virgin daughters to the Sodomites?
He wasn't thinking clearly. He didn't know what else to do.