Genesis 18:26

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 30 I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
  • Isa 65:8 : 8 Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
  • Matt 24:22 : 22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
  • Isa 6:13 : 13 If there are yet a tenth in it, It also shall in turn be eaten up: As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; So the holy seed is its stock."
  • Isa 10:22 : 22 For though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing with righteousness.
  • Isa 19:24 : 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;

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  • Gen 18:20-25
    6 verses
    90%

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

    21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 18:27-32
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    27Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

    28What 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."

    29He 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."

    30He 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."

    31He 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."

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

  • Gen 18:16-17
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    76%

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

    17Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

  • Gen 19:17-22
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    17It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"

    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.{Zoar means "little."}

  • Gen 19:28-29
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    73%

    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 midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

  • Gen 13:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

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

    13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

  • Gen 19:24-25
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    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.

  • Gen 18:3
    70%

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

  • Luke 17:29
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    29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

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

  • Jer 50:40
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    40As 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 sojourn therein.

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

  • Gen 19:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    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 do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

  • Gen 19:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    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 cry of them is grown great before Yahweh. Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

  • Ezek 18:5
    69%

    5But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

  • 2 Pet 2:6
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    6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

  • Gen 13:10
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    10Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

  • Ezek 22:30
    69%

    30I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

  • Jer 49:18
    68%

    18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

  • Gen 19:4
    68%

    4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.