Genesis 19:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 18:22 : 22 The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the LORD.
  • Gen 18:1-5 : 1 Three Special Visitors The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day. 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground. 3 He said,“My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant. 4 Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree. 5 And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.”“All right,” they replied,“you may do as you say.”
  • Job 31:32 : 32 But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler–
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 19:2-19
    18 verses
    85%

    2He 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.”

    3But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

    4Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men– both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom– surrounded the house.

    5They shouted to Lot,“Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can take carnal knowledge of them!”

    6Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.

    7He said,“No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!

    8Look, 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“Out of our way!” they cried, and“This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We’ll do more harm to you than to them!” They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.

    10So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.

    11Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.

    12Then 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

    13because 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.”

    14Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said,“Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.

    15At 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!”

    16When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the LORD had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.

    17When 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!”

    18But Lot said to them,“No, please, Lord!

    19Your 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.

  • Gen 19:22-24
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    22Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”(This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)

    23The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.

    24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the LORD.

  • Gen 18:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Three Special Visitors The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

    2Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

  • Gen 19:27-31
    5 verses
    76%

    27Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

    28He 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.

    29So 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.

    30Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

    31Later the older daughter said to the younger,“Our father is old, and there is no man in the country to sleep with us, the way everyone does.

  • Luke 17:29
    76%

    29but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

  • Gen 13:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

    13(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the LORD.)

  • Gen 18:22
    75%

    22The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the LORD.

  • Gen 18:16
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    16Abraham 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.)

  • Gen 13:10
    73%

    10Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered(before the LORD obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

  • 2 Pet 2:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,

    7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,

  • Gen 18:20
    71%

    20So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant

  • Gen 19:35-36
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    71%

    35So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and went to bed with him. But he was not aware of when she lay down with him or when she got up.

    36In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

  • Gen 14:12
    70%

    12They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.