Genesis 19

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,Cross-references: Gen 18:1 · Gen 18:22 · Job 31:32 · Heb 13:2

2and he said, “See now, my lords, please come 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.”Cross-references: Gen 18:4 · Judg 19:17 · Luke 24:28 · Acts 16:15 · Heb 13:2

3He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.Cross-references: Gen 18:6 · Gen 21:8 · Ex 12:15 · Ex 12:39 · Judg 6:19 · 1Sam 28:24 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Gen 18:20 · Ex 16:2 · Ex 23:2 · Prov 4:16 · Prov 6:18 · +5 more

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.”Cross-references: Lev 18:22 · Lev 20:13 · Judg 19:22 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 3:9 · Jer 3:3 · +10 more

6Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.Cross-references: Judg 19:23

7He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.Cross-references: Gen 19:4 · Lev 18:22 · Lev 20:13 · Deut 23:17 · Judg 19:23 · 1Sam 30:23 · +4 more

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.”Cross-references: Gen 18:5 · Gen 19:31 · Gen 42:37 · Ex 32:22 · Judg 9:15 · Judg 19:24 · +3 more

9They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.Cross-references: Gen 11:6 · Gen 13:12 · Ex 2:14 · 1Sam 2:16 · 1Sam 17:44 · 1Sam 25:17 · +14 more

10But the men reached out 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.Cross-references: Deut 28:28 · 2Ki 6:18 · Eccl 10:15 · Isa 57:10 · Jer 2:36 · Acts 13:11

12The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:Cross-references: Gen 7:1 · Gen 19:14 · Gen 19:17 · Gen 19:22 · Num 16:26 · Josh 6:22 · +4 more

13for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Gen 18:20 · 1Chr 21:15 · Ps 11:5 · Isa 3:11 · Isa 36:10 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 19:17 · Gen 19:22 · Ex 9:21 · Ex 12:31 · Num 16:21 · Num 16:26 · +17 more

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.”Cross-references: Gen 19:17 · Gen 19:22 · Num 16:24 · Prov 6:4 · Luke 13:24 · 2Cor 6:2 · +2 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Num 14:18 · Deut 4:31 · Josh 6:22 · 1Chr 16:34 · Ps 34:12 · +23 more

17It 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!”Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Gen 18:22 · Gen 19:14 · Gen 19:22 · Gen 19:26 · 1Sam 19:11 · +9 more

18Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.Cross-references: Gen 32:26 · 2Ki 5:11 · Isa 45:11 · John 13:6 · Acts 9:13 · Acts 10:14

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.Cross-references: Gen 12:13 · Deut 31:17 · 1Sam 27:1 · 1Ki 9:9 · Ps 18:1 · Ps 40:1 · +8 more

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.”Cross-references: Gen 12:13 · Gen 19:30 · Ps 119:175 · Prov 3:5 · Isa 55:3 · Amos 3:6

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.Cross-references: Gen 4:7 · Gen 12:2 · Gen 18:24 · Job 42:8 · Ps 34:15 · Ps 102:17 · +6 more

22Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Gen 14:2 · Gen 32:25 · Ex 32:10 · Deut 9:14 · Ps 91:1 · +6 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 29:23 · Job 18:15 · Ps 11:6 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 13:19 · Jer 20:16 · +11 more

25He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Gen 14:3 · Ps 107:34

26But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.Cross-references: Gen 19:17 · Num 16:38 · Prov 14:14 · Luke 17:31 · Heb 10:38

27Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 18:22 · Ps 5:3 · Ezek 16:49 · Hab 2:1 · Heb 2:1

28He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.Cross-references: Ps 107:34 · 2Pet 2:7 · Jude 1:7 · Rev 9:2 · Rev 14:10 · Rev 18:9 · +3 more

29When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.Cross-references: Gen 8:1 · Gen 12:2 · Gen 18:23 · Gen 30:22 · Deut 9:5 · Neh 13:14 · +10 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Gen 14:22 · Gen 19:17 · Gen 19:19 · Gen 49:4 · Deut 34:3 · +4 more

31The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.Cross-references: Gen 4:1 · Gen 6:4 · Gen 16:2 · Gen 16:4 · Gen 19:28 · Gen 38:8 · +4 more

32Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”Cross-references: Gen 9:21 · Gen 11:3 · Lev 18:6 · Prov 23:31 · Hab 2:15 · Mark 12:19

33They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.Cross-references: Lev 18:6 · Prov 20:1 · Prov 23:29 · Hab 2:15

34It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”Cross-references: Isa 3:9 · Jer 3:3 · Jer 5:3 · Jer 6:15 · Jer 8:12

35They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.Cross-references: Ps 8:4 · Prov 24:16 · Eccl 7:26 · Luke 21:34 · 1Cor 10:11 · 1Pet 4:7

36Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.Cross-references: Gen 19:8 · Lev 18:6 · Judg 1:7 · 1Sam 15:33 · Hab 2:15 · Matt 7:2

37The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.Cross-references: Num 21:29 · Num 22:1 · Num 24:1 · Deut 2:9 · Deut 2:19 · Deut 23:3 · +4 more

38The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.Cross-references: Deut 2:9 · Deut 2:19 · Deut 23:3 · Judg 10:6 · 1Sam 11:1 · 2Sam 10:1 · +5 more