Genesis 19:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

Look now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape there, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

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  • Ps 119:175 : 175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise You, and let Your judgments help me.
  • Prov 3:5-7 : 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths. 7 Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
  • Amos 3:6 : 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be calamity in a city, and the LORD has not brought it?
  • Gen 12:13 : 13 Say, I pray you, you are my sister: that it may be well with me for your sake; and my soul shall live because of you.
  • Gen 19:30 : 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters were with him, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar: and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.

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  • Gen 19:15-19
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    83%

    15And when the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

    16And while he lingered, the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

    17And it came to pass, when they had brought them out, that he said, Escape for your life; do not look behind you, nor stay anywhere in the plain; escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.

    18And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my Lord.

    19Behold now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have shown to me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil overtake me and I die.

  • Gen 19:21-22
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    21And he said to him, See, I have accepted you in this matter also, that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.

    22Hurry, escape there; for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

  • Gen 18:28-32
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    28Suppose there should lack five of the fifty righteous; will you destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.

    29And he spoke to him yet again and said, Suppose there should be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the sake of forty.

    30And he said to him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak; suppose thirty should be found there. And he said, I will not do it if I find thirty there.

    31And he said, Behold now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty should be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.

    32And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but this once; suppose ten should be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.

  • Gen 18:24-26
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    24Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will you also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are within it?

    25Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

    26And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

  • Josh 20:4
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    4And when he who flees to one of those cities shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and shall declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city to them and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

  • Josh 2:13
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    13And that you will save my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

  • Josh 8:5
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    5And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach the city, and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

  • Gen 18:3
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    3And said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, do not pass away, I pray you, from your servant.

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Jonah 4:3
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    3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

  • 1 Kgs 19:3
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    3And when he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

  • 1 Sam 20:29
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    29And he said, Let me go, please; for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother has commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me go, I pray you, and see my brothers. Therefore he does not come to the king's table.

  • Ps 39:13
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    13O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am no more.

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    16And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers return: and afterward you may go your way.

  • Gen 12:13
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    13Say, I pray you, you are my sister: that it may be well with me for your sake; and my soul shall live because of you.

  • Jer 48:6
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    6Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

  • Jer 21:9
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    20But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of the LORD, which I speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.

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    9He said to me again, Stand, please, upon me, and kill me: for anguish has come upon me, because my life is still in me.

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  • 1 Sam 27:5
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    5And David said to Achish, If I have now found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?

  • Gen 19:29
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    29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the upheaval, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

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    15Now therefore I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, because the people have made me afraid: and your maidservant said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant.

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