Genesis · 38 verses

Genesis 19

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Lot is told to flee to the mountains, bargains instead for a small nearby town, and is granted the request—on the remarkable condition that nothing can happen until he reaches it.

The house in Sodomvv. 1–14

Two angels arrive at Sodom, where Lot is sitting in the gateway. He insists on taking them home, feeds them, and then finds the whole city pressing at his door. The men inside pull him back from the crowd and strike the crowd blind, though the men still wear themselves out searching for the door—a rather grim spectacle of determination meeting a very definite obstacle. Lot is warned that the city will be destroyed, but his sons-in-law think the warning is a joke.

The small place sparedvv. 15–29

At daybreak the angels hurry Lot, his wife, and his daughters out of the city. Lot cannot face the mountains, so he asks for a nearby small town instead; the request is granted, and the angel declares that nothing can be done until Lot gets there. Lot reaches Zoar as the sun rises. Then sulfur and fire fall on Sodom and Gomorrah, the plain is destroyed, and Lot’s wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt. Abraham sees the smoke from a distance, while Lot is brought out because God remembers Abraham.

The cave and the two sonsvv. 30–38

Lot leaves Zoar because he is afraid to stay there, and settles with his two daughters in a cave in the mountains. The daughters, supposing there is no man in the land, get their father drunk on two successive nights and sleep with him without his knowing. Each becomes pregnant. The older gives birth to Moab; the younger gives birth to Ben-ammi, and the chapter ends with two names and the peoples that descend from them.

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Gen 19:1Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,
Gen 19:2and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
Gen 19:3But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Gen 19:4Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.
Gen 19:5They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
Gen 19:6 Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.
Gen 19:7“Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing!
Gen 19:8Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
Gen 19:9“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
Gen 19:10But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
Gen 19:11And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
Gen 19:12Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
Gen 19:13because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”
Gen 19:14So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Gen 19:15At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
Gen 19:16But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.
Gen 19:17As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
Gen 19:18But Lot replied, “No, my lords, please!
Gen 19:19Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
Gen 19:20Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
Gen 19:21“Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.
Gen 19:22Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
Gen 19:23And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.
Gen 19:24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
Gen 19:25Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
Gen 19:26But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Gen 19:27Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
Gen 19:28He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Gen 19:29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
Gen 19:30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
Gen 19:31One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
Gen 19:32Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
Gen 19:33So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Gen 19:34The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
Gen 19:35So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Gen 19:36Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
Gen 19:37The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.
Gen 19:38The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.

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Named in the Hebrew or Greek somewhere in this chapter, under a form the English renders differently — the registry's Ludim against the translation's Ludites — so there is no word in the sentence to hang the link on.

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Where this is echoed

Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 370 passages were voted onto 36 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

17 Matthew 24:16–18then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
17 Luke 9:62Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
17 Philippians 3:13–14Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
17 Genesis 19:26But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
17 Genesis 19:22Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
17 Luke 17:31–32On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
17 Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
17 Jeremiah 48:6‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
17 1 Kings 19:3And Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,
24 Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
5 Judges 19:22While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
17 Psalms 121:1A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
26 Genesis 19:17As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
17 1 Samuel 19:11Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
8 Judges 19:24Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”
11 2 Kings 6:18As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.

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