Genesis 19:17

World English Bible (2000)

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"

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  • Gen 19:26 : 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
  • Matt 24:16-18 : 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house. 18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
  • Luke 9:62 : 62 But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
  • Phil 3:13-14 : 13 Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
  • Luke 17:31-32 : 31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. 32 Remember Lot's wife!
  • Gen 19:22 : 22 Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Gen 19:14-15 : 14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. 15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
  • 1 Sam 19:11 : 11 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."
  • 1 Kgs 19:3 : 3 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
  • Ps 121:1 : 1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
  • Jer 48:6 : 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
  • Gen 18:22 : 22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

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  • Gen 19:5-16
    12 verses
    84%

    5They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."

    6Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

    7He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.

    8See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

    9They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

    10But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

    11They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

    12The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

    13for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

    14Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

    15When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."

    16But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

  • Gen 19:18-26
    9 verses
    83%

    18Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.

    19See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

    20See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

    21He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

    22Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

    23The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

    24Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

    25He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

    26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

  • Gen 19:28-30
    3 verses
    82%

    28He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

    29It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

    30Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

  • Luke 17:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    28Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

    29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

  • Luke 17:32
    77%

    32Remember Lot's wife!

  • Gen 13:9-12
    4 verses
    76%

    9Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

    10Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

    11So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

    12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

  • Gen 19:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

    2and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."

  • Gen 13:14
    74%

    14Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

  • Gen 14:10
    73%

    10Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

  • Gen 14:12
    73%

    12They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

  • Gen 18:22
    72%

    22The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

  • Gen 18:16
    72%

    16The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

  • Josh 2:16
    71%

    16She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."

  • 2 Pet 2:7
    71%

    7and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

  • Deut 29:23
    71%

    23[and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: