Genesis 18:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.

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  • Gen 19:1 : 1 And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.
  • Ps 106:23 : 23 And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 30 And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.
  • Acts 7:55 : 55 But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God.
  • 1 Tim 2:1 : 1 My desire is, first of all, that you will make requests and prayers and give praise for all men;
  • Jer 15:1 : 1 Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
  • Gen 18:1-2 : 1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day; 2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;
  • Gen 18:16 : 16 And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

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  • Gen 18:16-17
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    86%

    16 And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

    17 And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;

  • Gen 18:23-29
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    85%

    23 And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

    24 If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men?

    25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

    26 And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them.

    27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

    28 If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.

    29 And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.

  • Gen 19:26-29
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    26 But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.

    27 And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

    28 And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.

    29 So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

  • Gen 18:20-21
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    20 And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

    21 I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

  • Gen 18:31-33
    3 verses
    77%

    31 And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

    32 And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

    33 And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.

  • Gen 18:1-3
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    1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;

    2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

    3 And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:

  • Gen 19:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.

    2 And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street.

  • Gen 13:12-14
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    12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

    13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

    14 And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

  • Gen 17:22
    73%

    22 And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.

  • Gen 19:16-18
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    16 But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town.

    17 And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

    18 And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;

  • Gen 19:4
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    4 But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;

  • Gen 17:3
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    3 And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

  • Gen 19:6
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    6 And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him.

  • Gen 22:1
    70%

    1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

  • Gen 22:11
    70%

    11 But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

  • Gen 22:15
    70%

    15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,

  • Gen 19:9
    70%

    9 And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

  • Gen 22:5
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    5 Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.

  • Gen 23:7
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    7 And Abraham got up and gave honour to the children of Heth, the people of that land.

  • Gen 19:21
    70%

    21 And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.