Genesis 19:20

World English Bible (2000)

See 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."

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:175 : 175 Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.
  • Prov 3:5-7 : 5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. 7 Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
  • Amos 3:6 : 6 Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn't done it?
  • Gen 12:13 : 13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
  • Gen 19:30 : 30 Lot 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 19:15-19
    5 verses
    83%

    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."

    16 But 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.

    17 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!"

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

    19 See 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.

  • Gen 19:21-22
    2 verses
    80%

    21 He 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.

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

  • Gen 18:28-32
    5 verses
    73%

    28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

    29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

    30 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

    31 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

    32 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

  • Gen 18:24-26
    3 verses
    70%

    24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

    25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

    26 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

  • Josh 20:4
    69%

    4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

  • Josh 2:13
    68%

    13 and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death."

  • Josh 8:5
    68%

    5 I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

  • Gen 18:3
    68%

    3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

  • Job 10:20
    68%

    20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Jonah 4:3
    68%

    3 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."

  • 1 Kgs 19:3
    67%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 20:29
    67%

    29 He said, 'Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.' Therefore he has not come to the king's table."

  • Ps 39:13
    67%

    13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

  • Josh 2:16
    67%

    16 She 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."

  • Gen 12:13
    67%

    13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

  • Jer 48:6
    67%

    6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

  • Jer 21:9
    66%

    9 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.

  • Jer 38:20
    66%

    20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.

  • 2 Sam 1:9
    66%

    9 He said to me, 'Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.'

  • 1 Sam 27:1
    66%

    1 David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."

  • 1 Sam 27:5
    66%

    5 David said to Achish, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?"

  • Gen 19:29
    66%

    29 It 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.

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
    2 verses
    66%

    15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

    16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • 2 Sam 19:37
    66%

    37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you."

  • 2 Kgs 19:34
    66%

    34 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

  • Deut 4:42
    65%

    42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

  • Ps 11:1
    65%

    1 In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"

  • Judg 19:18
    65%

    18 He said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into his house.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    65%

    9 He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

  • Gen 18:20
    65%

    20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

  • Judg 19:20
    65%

    20 The old man said, "Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don't lodge in the street."

  • Jer 38:2
    65%

    2 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live.

  • Amos 7:5
    65%

    5 Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

  • Jer 37:20
    65%

    20 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

  • 2 Kgs 7:4
    65%

    4 If we say, 'We will enter into the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die."

  • Num 11:15
    65%

    15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."