Genesis 19:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Gen 19:26 : 26 But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.
  • Matt 24:16-18 : 16 Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains: 17 Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house: 18 And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.
  • Luke 9:62 : 62 But Jesus said, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is good enough for the kingdom of God.
  • Phil 3:13-14 : 13 Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before, 14 I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
  • Luke 17:31-32 : 31 On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house. 32 Keep in mind Lot's wife.
  • Gen 19:22 : 22 Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
  • Gen 19:14-15 : 14 And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously. 15 And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.
  • 1 Sam 19:11 : 11 Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.
  • 1 Kgs 19:3 : 3 And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;
  • Ps 121:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?
  • Jer 48:6 : 6 Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.
  • Gen 18:22 : 22 And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 19:5-16
    12 verses
    84%

    5 And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.

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

    7 And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.

    8 See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.

    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.

    10 But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.

    11 But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.

    12 Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;

    13 For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.

    14 And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.

    15 And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.

    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.

  • Gen 19:18-26
    9 verses
    83%

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

    19 See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;

    20 This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.

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

    22 Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

    23 The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.

    24 Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

    25 And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

    26 But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.

  • Gen 19:28-30
    3 verses
    82%

    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.

    30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.

  • Luke 17:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

    29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

  • Luke 17:32
    77%

    32 Keep in mind Lot's wife.

  • Gen 13:9-12
    4 verses
    76%

    9 Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

    10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

    11 So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

    12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

  • Gen 19:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    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 13:14
    74%

    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 14:10
    73%

    10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

  • Gen 14:12
    73%

    12 And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.

  • Gen 18:22
    72%

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

  • Gen 18:16
    72%

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

  • Josh 2:16
    71%

    16 And she said to them, Get away into the hill-country, or the men who have gone after you will overtake you; keep yourselves safe there for three days, till the searchers have come back, and then go on your way.

  • 2 Pet 2:7
    71%

    7 And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers

  • Deut 29:23
    71%

    23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath: