Genesis 19:11

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then they smote the men that were at the doore of the house with blindnes both small and great, so that they were wearie in seeking the doore.

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  • 2 Kgs 6:18 : 18 So they came downe to him, but Elisha prayed vnto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindnesse; he smote them with blindnes, according to the worde of Elisha.
  • Acts 13:11 : 11 Nowe therefore behold, the hand of the Lorde is vpon thee, and thou shalt be blinde, and not see the sunne for a season; immediately there fel on him a mist & a darknes; and he went about, seeking some to leade him by the hand.
  • Deut 28:28-29 : 28 And ye Lorde shal smite thee with madnes, and with blindnes, and with astonying of heart. 29 Thou shalt also grope at noone daies, as the blinde gropeth in darknes, and shalt not prosper in thy wayes: thou shalt neuer but bee oppressed with wrong and be powled euermore, & no man shal succour thee.
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why runnest thou about so much to change thy waies? for thou shalt be confounded of Egypt, as thou art confounded of Asshur.
  • Eccl 10:15 : 15 The labour of the foolish doeth wearie him: for he knoweth not to goe into the citie.
  • Isa 57:10 : 10 Thou weariedst thy selfe in thy manifolde iourneys, yet saydest thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found life by thine hand, therefore thou wast not grieued.

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  • Gen 19:1-10
    10 verses
    88%

    1And in the euening there came two Angels to Sodom: and Lot sate at the gate of Sodom, and Lot sawe them, and rose vp to meete them, and he bowed himselfe with his face to the ground.

    2And he saide, See my Lords, I pray you turne in nowe into your seruants house, and tarie all night, and wash your feete, & ye shall rise vp early and goe your wayes. Who saide, Nay, but we will abide in the streete all night.

    3Then he preassed vpon them earnestly, and they turned in to him, and came to his house, and he made them a feast, and did bake vnleauened bread, and they did eate.

    4But before they went to bed, the men of the citie, euen the men of Sodom compassed the house rounde about from the yong euen to the olde, all the people from all quarters.

    5Who crying vnto Lot said to him, Where are the men, which came to thee this night? Bring them out vnto vs that we may knowe them.

    6Then Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doore after him,

    7And said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.

    8Beholde nowe, I haue two daughters, which haue not knowen man: them will I bring out now vnto you, and doe to them as seemeth you good: onely vnto these men doe nothing: for therefore are they come vnder the shadowe of my roofe.

    9Then they said, Away hence, and they said, He is come alone as a stranger, and shall he iudge and rule? We will nowe deale worse with thee then with them. So they preassed sore vpon Lot himselfe, and came to breake the doore.

    10But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them & shut to ye doore.

  • Gen 19:12-18
    7 verses
    80%

    12Then the men said vnto Lot, Whom hast thou yet here? Either sonne in lawe, or thy sonnes, or thy daughters, or whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring it out of this place.

    13For we will destroy this place, because the crye of them is great before the Lorde, and the Lord hath sent vs to destroy it.

    14Then Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe, which maried his daughters, and said, Arise, get you out of this place: for the Lord will destroy the citie: but he seemed to his sonnes in lawe as though he had mocked.

    15And when the morning arose, the Angels hasted Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be destroyed in the punishment of the citie.

    16And as he prolonged the time, the men caught both him and his wife, and his two daughters by the hands (the Lord being mercifull vnto him) and they brought him foorth, and set him without the citie.

    17And when they had brought them out, the Angel said, Escape for thy life: looke not behinde thee, neither tarie thou in all the plaine: escape into ye mountaine, least thou be destroyed.

    18And Lot saide vnto them, Not so, I pray thee, my Lord.

  • Judg 19:21-23
    3 verses
    76%

    21So he brought him into his house, & gaue fodder vnto the asses: and they washed their feete, and did eate and drinke.

    22And as they were making their hearts merie, beholde, the men of the citie, wicked men beset the house round about, and smote at the doore, and spake to this olde man the master of the house saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house that we may knowe him.

    23And this man the master of ye house went out vnto the, & said vnto them, Nay my brethre, do not so wickedly, I pray you: seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this villenie.

  • Luke 17:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28Likewise also, as it was in the dayes of Lot: they ate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they built.

    29But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all.

  • Josh 2:5
    71%

    5And when they shut the gate in the darke, the men went out, whither the men went I wote not: followe ye after them quickly, for ye shall ouertake them.

  • 2 Kgs 6:18
    71%

    18So they came downe to him, but Elisha prayed vnto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindnesse; he smote them with blindnes, according to the worde of Elisha.

  • Judg 19:25-27
    3 verses
    71%

    25But the men woulde not hearken to him: therefore ye man tooke his concubine, & brought her out vnto them: and they knewe her and abused her all the night vnto the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe.

    26So the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell downe at the doore of the mans house where her Lord was, till the light day.

    27And her lorde arose in the morning, and opened the doores of the house, and went out to goe his way, and beholde, the woman his concubine was dead at the doore of the house and her handes lay vpon the thresholde.

  • Gen 13:13
    71%

    13Now the men of Sodom were wicked and exceeding sinners against the Lord.

  • Josh 2:7
    70%

    7And certaine men pursued after them, the way to Iorden, vnto the foordes, and as soone as they which pursued after them, were gone out, they shut the gate.

  • Judg 1:25
    70%

    25And when hee had shewed them the waie into the citie, they smote the citie with the edge of the sworde, but they let the man and all his housholde depart.

  • Gen 19:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28And looking towarde Sodom and Gomorah and toward all the land of the plaine, behold, he sawe the smoke of the lande mounting vp as the smoke of a fornace.

    29But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, God thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middes of the destruction, when he ouerthrewe the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.

  • Gen 19:22-25
    4 verses
    70%

    22Haste thee, saue thee there: for I can doe nothing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the citie was called Zoar.

    23The sunne did rise vpon the earth, when Lot entred into Zoar.

    24Then the Lord rained vpon Sodom and vpon Gomorah brimstone, & fire from the Lord out of heauen,

    25And ouerthrewe those cities and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities; and that that grewe vpon the earth.

  • Gen 14:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11Then they tooke all the substance of Sodom and Gomorah, and al their vitailes and went their way.

    12They tooke Lot also Abrams brothers sonne and his substance (for he dwelt at Sodom) and departed.

  • Luke 14:21
    68%

    21So that seruaunt returned, and shewed his master these thinges. Then was the good man of the house angrie, and said to his seruant, Goe out quickely into the streetes and lanes of the citie, and bring in hither the poore, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blinde.

  • Gen 19:31
    68%

    31And the elder saide vnto the yonger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth, to come in vnto vs after the maner of all ye earth.

  • 2 Pet 2:6
    68%

    6And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrhe into ashes, condemned them and ouerthrewe them, and made them an ensample vnto them that after should liue vngodly,

  • Job 24:16
    68%

    16They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

  • Ezek 9:5
    68%

    5And to the other he said, that I might heare, Goe ye after him through the citie, and smite: let your eye spare none, neither haue pitie.

  • Judg 19:15
    68%

    15Then they turned thither to goe in and lodge in Gibeah: and when he came, he sate him downe in a streete of the citie: for there was no man that tooke them into his house to lodging.

  • Acts 12:16
    68%

    16But Peter continued knocking, and when they had opened it, and sawe him, they were astonied.

  • Gen 18:20
    67%

    20Then the Lorde saide, Because the crie of Sodom and Gomorah is great, and because their sinne is exceeding grieuous,