Genesis 18:16-19:29
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Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
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The Lord said, c "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
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seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be d blessed in him?
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For I have e chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
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Then the Lord said, "Because f the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,
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g I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, h I will know."
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i So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham j still stood before the Lord.
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Then Abraham drew near and said, k "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
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Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?
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Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, l so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! m Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
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And the Lord said, n "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
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Abraham answered and said, o "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
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Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."
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Again he spoke to him and said, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of forty I will not do it."
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Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there." He answered, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
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He said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it."
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Then he said, p "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it."
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And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 19
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The q two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
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and said, "My lords, r please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night s and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, t "No; we will spend the night in the town square."
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But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
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But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
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u And they called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? v Bring them out to us, that we w may know them."
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Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him,
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and said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
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x Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof."
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But they said, "Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow y came to sojourn, and z he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.
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But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door.
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And they struck with a blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.
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Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city, b bring them out of the place.
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For we are about to destroy this place, c because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it."
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So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, d "Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
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As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city."
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But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, e the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
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And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape for your life. f Do not look back or stop anywhere in the g valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away."
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And Lot said to them, "Oh, no, my lords.
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Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
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Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there - is it not a little one? - and my life will be saved!"
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He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
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Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called h Zoar.
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The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
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Then i the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
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And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
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But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became j a pillar of salt.
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And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had k stood before the Lord.
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And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
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So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God l remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
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Psalms 25:14
The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
Amos 3:7
For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 22:18
And in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.
Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed.
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Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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Genesis 4:10
And the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
Genesis 19:13
For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.
Isaiah 3:9
For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
Ezekiel 16:49 - 50
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Joshua 22:22
The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the Lord, do not spare us today
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Genesis 18:16
Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
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Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
Psalms 106:23
Therefore he said he would destroy them - had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
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Genesis 20:4
Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
Numbers 16:22
And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
2 Samuel 24:17
Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father's house.
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Job 8:20
Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
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Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Job 34:10
Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
Romans 3:5 - 6
But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? ( I speak in a human way.)
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Jeremiah 5:1
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
Isaiah 65:8
Thus says the Lord : "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, 'Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,' so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.
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Luke 18:1
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
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Judges 6:39
Then Gideon said to God, "Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.
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Genesis 18:22
So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
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Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Judges 4:18
And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid." So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
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Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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Luke 24:28
So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther.
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Isaiah 3:9
For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
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Judges 19:22
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
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Romans 1:24
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.
Romans 1:27
And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Jude 1:7
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
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Judges 19:24
Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.
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Genesis 13:12
Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
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Exodus 2:14
He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known.
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2 Kings 6:18
And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Acts 13:11
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time." Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.
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2 Peter 2:7
And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
2 Peter 2:9
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment.
Revelation 18:4 - 5
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues.
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Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave.
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Numbers 16:21
"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
Numbers 16:26
And he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.
Numbers 16:45
Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
Jeremiah 51:6
Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the Lord 's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.
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Psalms 34:22
The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
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Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Matthew 24:16 - 18
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
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Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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Genesis 14:2
These kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
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Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land burned out with brimstone and sa...
Jeremiah 20:16
Let that man be like the cities that the Lord o...
Jeremiah 50:40
As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and th...
Lamentations 4:6
For the chastisement of the daughter of my peop...
Amos 4:11
I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew ...
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live," declares the Lord of hos...
Luke 17:29
But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fi...
2 Peter 2:6
If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah ...
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Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife.
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Genesis 18:22
So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
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Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
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