Genesis 18:32
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.”
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.”
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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),
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.”
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.”
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.)
33 The LORD went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.
3 He said,“My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.
7 He said,“No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!
8 Look, I have two daughters who have never been intimate with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 If ten men are left in one house, they too will die.
9 Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”
10 When God saw their actions– that they turned from their evil way of living!– God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.
10 So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
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.
11 Abraham replied,“Because I thought,‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’
12 He prayed,“O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.
14 Then the LORD relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
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.”
10 But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.
8 But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.
17 Gideon said to him,“If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.
18 Abraham said to God,“O that Ishmael might live before you!”
2 He said,“Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.”“No,” they replied,“we’ll spend the night in the town square.”
3 The LORD decided not to do this.“It will not happen,” the LORD said.
17 So now, forgive my sin this time only, and pray to the LORD your God that he would only take this death away from me.”
3 So the LORD said,“My Spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”
3 Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,