Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.”
Here is, I. The great trouble and distress that Lot was brought into after his deliverance, Gen 19:30. 1. He was frightened out of Zoar, durst not dwell there; probably because he was conscious to himself that it was a refuge of his own choosing and that herein he had foolishly prescribed to God, and therefore he could not but distrust his safety in it...
Commenting on Genesis 19:30-38
And they made their father drink wine that night,.... They persuaded him to drink liberally, urged him to it again, in order to make him drunk, and so complete their design; and Lot might be the more prevailed upon to drink freely, in order to remove his sorrow, and refresh his spirits under the loss of his wife, and his daughters, if he had any...
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. (q) For unless he had been drunk, he would never have done that abominable act.