GEN1057 Eventually, God establishes to Abraham’s satisfaction that there are fewer than ten righteous people within the city (for whom God sends angels to lead out) and that no one else living there is worthy of being saved.   (Had there been ten or more righteous people there, Abraham would have gone on arguing to save the whole city, evil people included.  With a core of good people, there is reason to hope that the evil people will also be affected.)  Still, Abraham’s question, in insisting that God, no less than human beings, is bound by the demands of just behavior, establishes the unique biblical emphasis on this virtue.   Even in late medieval England, a king’s unjust behavior went unchallenged on the grounds of the “divine right of kings,” which was widely understood as meaning that the monarch, who was seen as serving by the grace of God, had the right to do whatever he wanted.   Abraham (and the Hebrew Bible’s theology) was quite different.  For Abraham, justice is a value to which “the King of kings” Himself is bound.   TELVOL 2:404-5