Genesis 19:21

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Gen 4:7 : 7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
  • Gen 18:24 : 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?
  • Job 42:8-9 : 8 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has." 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
  • Ps 34:15 : 15 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
  • Ps 102:17 : 17 He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
  • Ps 145:19 : 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
  • Jer 14:10 : 10 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
  • Matt 12:20 : 20 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.
  • Luke 11:8 : 8 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
  • Heb 2:17 : 17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
  • Heb 4:15-16 : 15 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

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  • Gen 19:22-26
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    22 Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 19:15-20
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    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.

    20 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."

  • Gen 18:19-32
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    19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

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

    21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

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

    23 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

    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."

    27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

    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 19:28-29
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    28 He 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.

    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.

  • Gen 18:17
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    17 Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

  • Gen 19:12-13
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    12 The 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:

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

  • Gen 13:9-10
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    9 Isn'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."

    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.

  • Gen 19:7-8
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    7 He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.

    8 See 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."

  • Gen 18:3
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    3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

  • Gen 19:1-2
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    1 The 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,

    2 and 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 14:21
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    21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."

  • Matt 10:15
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    15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

  • Matt 11:24
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    24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you."

  • Gen 20:15
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    15 Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

  • Jer 50:40
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    40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

  • Gen 24:12
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    12 He said, "Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

  • Gen 22:16
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    16 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

  • Num 14:20
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    20 Yahweh said, "I have pardoned according to your word:

  • Deut 29:23
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    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: