Genesis 19:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 19:17 : 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.
  • Prov 14:14 : 14 He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.
  • Heb 10:38 : 38 But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
  • 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.
  • Num 16:38 : 38 And let the vessels of those men, who with their lives have made payment for their sin, be hammered out into plates as a cover for the altar; for they have been offered before the Lord and are holy; so that they may be a sign to the children of Israel.

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  • Gen 19:11-19
    9 verses
    77%

    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.

    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;

    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;

  • Gen 19:21-25
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    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.

  • Gen 19:27-30
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

    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.

  • 32 Keep in mind Lot's wife.

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

  • 6 And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

  • Gen 18:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • 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:

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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 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.

  • Gen 13:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    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.

  • 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.

  • 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

  • 36 And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

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

  • 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;

  • 9 And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.

  • 19 Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.