Genesis 19:18
But Lot said to them,“No, please, Lord!
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- Gen 32:26 : 26 Then the man said,“Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.”“I will not let you go,” Jacob replied,“unless you bless me.”
- 2 Kgs 5:11-12 : 11 Naaman went away angry. He said,“Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease. 12 The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel! Could I not wash in them and be healed?” So he turned around and went away angry.
- Isa 45:11 : 11 This is what the LORD says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come:“How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!
- John 13:6-8 : 6 Then he came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him,“Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” 7 Jesus replied,“You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things.” 8 Peter said to him,“You will never wash my feet!” Jesus replied,“If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”
- Acts 9:13 : 13 But Ananias replied,“Lord, I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem,
- Acts 10:14 : 14 But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”
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- Gen 19:12-176 verses83%
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.”
14 Then 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.
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!”
16 When 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.
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!”
- Gen 19:19-246 verses83%
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.)
23 The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.
24 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the LORD.
- Gen 19:4-107 verses81%
4 Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men– both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom– surrounded the house.
5 They 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!”
6 Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.
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 “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.
10 So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.
- Gen 19:1-22 verses79%
1 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.
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.”
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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.
- Gen 19:28-303 verses75%
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.
30 Lot 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.
- Gen 18:22-232 verses73%
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?
- Gen 18:25-273 verses73%
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),
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20 So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant
- Gen 18:29-324 verses73%
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.”
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23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them,“No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!
- Gen 13:8-125 verses72%
8 Abram said to Lot,“Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.
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.”
10 Lot 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.
11 Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.
12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.
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7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,
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29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
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32 Remember Lot’s wife!
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7 They answered him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
- Gen 18:16-172 verses70%
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?