Genesis 19:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

And 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.

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  • Gen 19:26 : 26 Now his wife behind him looked backe, and she became a pillar of salt.
  • Matt 24:16-18 : 16 Then let them which be in Iudea, flee into the mountaines. 17 Let him which is on the house top, not come downe to fetch any thing out of his house. 18 And he that is in the fielde, let not him returne backe to fetch his clothes.
  • Luke 9:62 : 62 And Iesus saide vnto him, No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh backe, is apt to the kingdome of God.
  • Phil 3:13-14 : 13 Brethren, I count not my selfe, that I haue attained to it, but one thing I doe: I forget that which is behinde, and endeuour my selfe vnto that which is before, 14 And followe hard toward the marke, for the prise of the hie calling of God in Christ Iesus.
  • Luke 17:31-32 : 31 At that day hee that is vpon the house, and his stuffe in ye house, let him not come downe to take it out: and he that is in the fielde likewise, let him not turne backe to that he left behinde. 32 Remember Lots wife.
  • Gen 19:22 : 22 Haste thee, saue thee there: for I can doe nothing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the citie was called Zoar.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 Now when he sawe many of the Pharises, and of the Sadduces come to his baptisme, he said vnto them, O generations of vipers, who hath forewarned you to flee from the anger to come?
  • Gen 19:14-15 : 14 Then 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. 15 And 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.
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 So when Lot lifted vp his eyes, he saw that all the plaine of Iorden was watered euery where: (for before the Lorde destroyed Sodom and Gomorah, it was as the garden of the Lorde, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest vnto Zoar)
  • 1 Sam 19:11 : 11 Saul also sent messengers vnto Dauids house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal Dauids wife told it him, saying, If thou saue not thy selfe this night, to morowe thou shalt be slayne.
  • 1 Kgs 19:3 : 3 When he sawe that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which is in Iudah, and left his seruant there.
  • Ps 121:1 : 1 A song of degrees. I will lift mine eyes vnto the mouuntaines, from whence mine helpe shall come.
  • Jer 48:6 : 6 Flee and saue your liues, and be like vnto the heath in the wildernesse.
  • Gen 18:22 : 22 And the men turned thence and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lord.
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great saluation, which at the first began to be preached by the Lorde, and afterward was confirmed vnto vs by them that heard him,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 19:5-16
    12 verses
    84%

    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.

    11Then 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.

    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.

  • Gen 19:18-26
    9 verses
    83%

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

    19Behold now, thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercie, which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauing my life: and I cannot escape in the mountaine, least some euill take me, and I die.

    20See nowe this citie hereby to flee vnto, which is a litle one: Oh let me escape thither: is it not a litle one, and my soule shall liue?

    21Then he said vnto him, Beholde, I haue receiued thy request also concerning this thing, that I will not ouerthrow this citie, for the which thou hast spoken.

    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.

    26Now his wife behind him looked backe, and she became a pillar of salt.

  • Gen 19:28-30
    3 verses
    82%

    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.

    30Then Lot went vp from Zoar, & dwelt in the mountaine with his two daughters: for he feared to tarie in Zoar, but dwelt in a caue, he, and his two daughters.

  • Luke 17:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Luke 17:32
    77%

    32Remember Lots wife.

  • Gen 13:9-12
    4 verses
    76%

    9Is not the whole land before thee? depart I pray thee from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will goe to the right: or if thou goe to the right hand, then I will take the left.

    10So when Lot lifted vp his eyes, he saw that all the plaine of Iorden was watered euery where: (for before the Lorde destroyed Sodom and Gomorah, it was as the garden of the Lorde, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest vnto Zoar)

    11Then Lot chose vnto him all the plaine of Iorden, and tooke his iourney from the East: and they departed the one from the other.

    12Abram dwelled in the lande of Canaan, and Lot abode in the cities of the plaine, and pitched his tent euen to Sodom.

  • Gen 19:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Gen 13:14
    74%

    14Then the Lord saide vnto Abram, (after that Lot was departed from him) Lift vp thine eyes nowe, and looke from the place where thou art, Northward, and Southward, and Eastwarde, and Westward:

  • Gen 14:10
    73%

    10Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits, & the Kings of Sodom & Gomorah fled and fell there: and ye residue fled to the mountaine.

  • Gen 14:12
    73%

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

  • Gen 18:22
    72%

    22And the men turned thence and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lord.

  • Gen 18:16
    72%

    16Afterwarde the men did rise vp from thence and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

  • Josh 2:16
    71%

    16And she said vnto them, Goe you into the mountaine, least the pursuers meete with you, and hide your selues there three dayes, vntill the pursuers be returned: then afterwarde may yee goe your way.

  • 2 Pet 2:7
    71%

    7And deliuered iust Loth vexed with the vncleanly conuersation of the wicked:

  • Deut 29:23
    71%

    23(For all that land shall burne with brimstone and salt: it shall not be sowen, nor bring forth, nor any grasse shall growe therein, like as in the ouerthrowing of Sodom, and Gomorah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord ouerthrewe in his wrath and in his anger)