Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 19:2

2 And he said, Behold now my Lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servants house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways . And they said, Nay, but we will abide in the street all night .

And so this will be no hindrance to your occasions.

This was no untruth, but really intended by them in the present state of things, and upon supposition that Lot should press them no further; but they also intended, if Lot was earnest with them, to comply with him. Their first denial was but decent and an act of civility, and in them it was a design to discover Lots Piety and Hospitality, and to manifest the great difference between him and the barbarous Sodomites, and the reason and justice of Lots deliverance and their destruction.

Marginal references: Heb. 13. 2.; Chap. 18. 4.; See Luk. 24. 28.