Genesis 19:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 4:7 : 7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
  • Gen 18:24 : 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?
  • Job 42:8-9 : 8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has. 9 And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.
  • Ps 34:15 : 15 The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.
  • Ps 102:17 : 17 When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
  • Ps 145:19 : 19 To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.
  • Jer 14:10 : 10 This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.
  • Matt 12:20 : 20 The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.
  • Luke 11:8 : 8 I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.
  • Heb 2:17 : 17 Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.
  • Heb 4:15-16 : 15 For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin. 16 Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

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  • Gen 19:22-26
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    22Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

    23The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.

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

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

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

  • Gen 19:15-20
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    15And 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.

    16But 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.

    17And 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.

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

    19See 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;

    20This 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.

  • Gen 18:19-32
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    19For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

    20And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

    21I 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.

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

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

    24If 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?

    25Let 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?

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

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

    28If 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.

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

    30And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.

    31And 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.

    32And 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.

  • Gen 19:28-29
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    28And 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.

    29So 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 18:17
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    17And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;

  • Gen 19:12-13
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    12Then 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;

    13For 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.

  • Gen 13:9-10
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    9Is 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.

    10And 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.

  • Gen 19:7-8
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    7And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.

    8See 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.

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

  • Gen 19:1-2
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    1And 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.

    2And 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 14:21
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    21And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.

  • Matt 10:15
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    15Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town.

  • Matt 11:24
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    24But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

  • Gen 20:15
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    15And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

  • Jer 50:40
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    40As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

  • Gen 24:12
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    12And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham.

  • Gen 22:16
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    16Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

  • Num 14:20
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    20And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:

  • Deut 29:23
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    23And 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: