Genesis 18:28
what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?” He replied,“I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
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- Gen 18:26 : 26 So the LORD replied,“If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
- Gen 18:29 : 29 Abraham spoke to him again,“What if forty are found there?” He replied,“I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”
- Num 14:17-19 : 17 So now, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have said, 18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’ 19 Please forgive the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.”
- 1 Kgs 20:32-33 : 32 So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said,“Your servant Ben Hadad says,‘Please let me live!’” Ahab replied,“Is he still alive? He is my brother.” 33 The men took this as a good omen and quickly accepted his offer, saying,“Ben Hadad is your brother.” Ahab then said,“Go, get him.” So Ben Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up into his chariot.
- Job 23:3-4 : 3 O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence! 4 I would lay out my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
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- Gen 18:15-2713 verses91%
15 Then Sarah lied, saying,“I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But the LORD said,“No! You did laugh.”
16 Abraham Pleads for Sodom When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom.(Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)
17 Then the LORD said,“Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
18 After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.
19 I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. Then the LORD will give to Abraham what he promised him.”
20 So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant
21 that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”
22 The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the LORD.
23 Abraham approached and said,“Will you really sweep away the godly along with the wicked?
24 What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?
25 Far be it from you to do such a thing– to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?”
26 So the LORD replied,“If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27 Then Abraham asked,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord(although I am but dust and ashes),
- Gen 18:29-335 verses90%
29 Abraham spoke to him again,“What if forty are found there?” He replied,“I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”
30 Then Abraham said,“May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?” He replied,“I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31 Abraham said,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?” He replied,“I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”
32 Finally Abraham said,“May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied,“I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”
33 The LORD went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.
- Gen 19:17-226 verses74%
17 When they had brought them outside, they said,“Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”
18 But Lot said to them,“No, please, Lord!
19 Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.
20 Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”
21 “Very well,” he replied,“I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.
22 Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”(This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)
- Gen 19:27-293 verses70%
27 Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
28 He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham’s request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.
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3 He said,“My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.
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30 “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.
- Gen 19:12-132 verses67%
12 Then the two visitors said to Lot,“Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place
13 because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the LORD that he has sent us to destroy it.”
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49 Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.”
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7 He said,“No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!
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4 Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said,“Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?
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11 Abraham replied,“Because I thought,‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’
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25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.
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5 The servant asked him,“What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”
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15 At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying,“Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!”
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12 He prayed,“O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.
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2 But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”
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18 Abraham said to God,“O that Ishmael might live before you!”
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28 (for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’
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1 Judah is Justly Deserving of Coming Judgment The LORD said,“Go up and down through the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and see for yourselves. Search through its public squares. See if any of you can find a single person who deals honestly and tries to be truthful. If you can, then I will not punish this city.
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9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”
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3 The Sovereign LORD says this:“The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers will have only a hundred left; the town that marches out with a hundred soldiers will have only ten left for the family of Israel.”