Genesis 19:4

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But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

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  • Gen 13:13 : 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
  • Gen 18:20 : 20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
  • Exod 23:2 : 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
  • Prov 6:18 : 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
  • Jer 5:1-6 : 1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of usalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. 6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
  • Matt 27:20-25 : 20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. 21 The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas. 22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. 24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
  • Rom 3:15 : 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
  • Exod 16:2 : 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

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  • Gen 19:5-18
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    85%

    5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

    6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

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

    8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

    9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a jud: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

    10But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

    11And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

    12And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

    13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

    14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, t you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

    15And when the morning arose, then the anls hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

    16And while he linred, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

    17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

    18And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

  • Gen 19:1-3
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    1And there came two anls to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

    2And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

    3And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

  • Gen 13:12-13
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    12Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

    13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

  • Judg 19:22-23
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    22Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.

    23And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.

  • Luke 17:28-29
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    28Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

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

  • Gen 19:23-25
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    23The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

    24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

    25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

  • Gen 19:31
    73%

    31And the firstborn said unto the younr, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

  • Gen 18:20
    72%

    20And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
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    24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • Gen 18:22
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    22And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

  • Jude 1:7
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    7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

  • Judg 19:25
    72%

    25But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

  • Gen 19:28-29
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    71%

    28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

    29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

  • 2 Pet 2:6
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    6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

  • Gen 18:16
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    16And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

  • Gen 14:11-12
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    11And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

    12And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

  • Gen 13:10
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    10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

  • Gen 10:19
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    19And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to rar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.