Genesis 19 (NET)

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Genesis 19:1¹The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 18:1-5 Gen 18:22 Heb 13:2 Job 31:32

Genesis 19:2²He said, “Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they replied, “we’ll spend the night in the town square.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 18:4 Luke 24:28-29 Acts 16:15 Heb 13:2 Judg 19:17-21

Genesis 19:3³But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 18:6-8 1 Sam 28:24 Judg 6:19 1 Cor 5:8 Exod 12:39 Heb 13:2 2 Cor 5:14 2 Kgs 4:8 Exod 12:15 Gen 21:8

Genesis 19:4⁴Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men—both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom—surrounded the house.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 13:13 Prov 4:16 Exod 23:2 Gen 18:20 Exod 16:2 Jer 5:1-6 Jer 5:31 Matt 27:20-25 Mic 7:3 Prov 6:18

Genesis 19:5⁵They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can take carnal knowledge of them!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 19:22 Isa 3:9 Jude 1:7 Lev 18:22 Rom 1:26-27 1 Cor 6:9 1 Tim 1:10 Ezek 16:51 Matt 11:23-24 Ezek 16:49

Genesis 19:6⁶Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 19:23

Genesis 19:7⁷He said, “No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 6:9-11 1 Sam 30:23-24 Acts 17:26 Deut 23:17 Gen 19:4 Jude 1:7 Judg 19:23 Lev 18:22 Lev 20:13 Rom 1:24

Genesis 19:8⁸Look, I have two daughters who have never been intimate with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 19:24 Gen 19:31-38 Gen 18:5 Gen 42:37 Isa 58:7 Judg 9:15 Mark 9:6 Rom 3:8 Exod 32:22

Genesis 19:9⁹“Out of our way!” they cried, “This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We’ll do more harm to you than to them!” They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 2:14 2 Pet 2:7-8 Gen 13:12 Acts 7:26-28 Dan 3:19-22 Eccl 9:3 Jer 6:15 Matt 7:6 1 Sam 17:44 1 Sam 25:17

Genesis 19:10¹⁰So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 19:11¹¹Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 6:18 Acts 13:11 Deut 28:28-29 Jer 2:36 Eccl 10:15 Isa 57:10

Genesis 19:12¹²Then the two visitors said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this placeCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 7:1 2 Pet 2:7 Rev 18:4 2 Pet 2:9 Gen 19:17 Josh 6:22-23 Num 16:26 Gen 19:14 Gen 19:22 Jer 32:39

Genesis 19:13¹³because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 18:20 Acts 12:23 Jude 1:7 Matt 13:49-50 Rev 16:1-12 Jas 5:4 Matt 13:41-42 Rom 3:8-9 1 Chr 21:15-16 Ezek 9:5-6

Genesis 19:14¹⁴Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said, “Quick, get out of this place because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 16:21 Jer 51:6 Num 16:26 Num 16:45 2 Chr 30:10 Rev 18:4-8 2 Chr 36:16 Ezek 20:49 Isa 28:22 Jer 20:7

Genesis 19:15¹⁵At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 16:24-27 Rev 18:4 2 Cor 6:2 Gen 19:22 Luke 13:24-25 Prov 6:4-5 Gen 19:17 Heb 3:7-8

Genesis 19:16¹⁶When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 9:15-16 Titus 3:5 1 Chr 16:34 2 Cor 1:3 2 Pet 2:9 Deut 4:31 Eph 2:4-5 Exod 34:6 Isa 63:9 John 6:44

Genesis 19:17¹⁷When they had brought them outside, they said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 24:16-18 Luke 9:62 Phil 3:13-14 Gen 19:26 Gen 19:22 Luke 17:31-32 Matt 3:7 Jer 48:6 1 Kgs 19:3 Gen 13:10

Genesis 19:18¹⁸But Lot said to them, “No, please, Lord!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:11-12 Acts 10:14 Acts 9:13 Gen 32:26 Isa 45:11 John 13:6-8

Genesis 19:19¹⁹Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 9:9 1 Sam 27:1 1 Tim 1:14-16 Deut 31:17 Gen 12:13 Matt 8:25-26 Ps 103:1-22 Ps 106:1-48 Ps 116:1-19 Ps 18:1-50

Genesis 19:20²⁰Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 119:175 Prov 3:5-7 Amos 3:6 Gen 12:13 Gen 19:30 Isa 55:3

Genesis 19:21²¹“Very well,” he replied, “I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 145:19 Job 42:8-9 Ps 102:17 Ps 34:15 Gen 12:2 Gen 18:24 Gen 4:7 Heb 2:17 Heb 4:15-16 Luke 11:8

Genesis 19:22²²Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 13:10 Gen 14:2 Deut 9:14 Exod 32:10 Gen 32:25-28 Mark 6:5 Ps 91:1-10 2 Tim 2:13 Isa 15:5 Isa 65:8

Genesis 19:23²³The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 19:24²⁴Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 29:23 Isa 13:19 2 Pet 2:6 Jude 1:7 Amos 4:11 Ezek 16:49-50 Hos 11:8 Jer 20:16 Jer 50:40 Job 18:15

Genesis 19:25²⁵So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 107:34 Gen 14:3 Gen 13:10

Genesis 19:26²⁶But Lot’s wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 17:31-32 Gen 19:17 Heb 10:38 Prov 14:14 Num 16:38

Genesis 19:27²⁷Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:1 Ps 5:3 Ezek 16:49-50 Gen 18:22-33 Heb 2:1

Genesis 19:28²⁸He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 18:9 Rev 9:2 Jude 1:7 Rev 18:18 Rev 21:8 2 Pet 2:7 Ps 107:34 Rev 14:10-11 Rev 19:3

Genesis 19:29²⁹So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham’s request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 8:1 Deut 9:5 Gen 18:23-33 Ps 25:7 2 Pet 2:7 Hos 11:8 Ps 105:42 Ps 106:4 Ps 145:20 Ezek 36:31-32

Genesis 19:30³⁰Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 19:19 Deut 34:3 Gen 13:10 Gen 14:22 Gen 19:17 Gen 49:4 Isa 15:5 Jas 1:8 Jer 2:36-37 Jer 48:34

Genesis 19:31³¹Later the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the country to sleep with us, the way everyone does.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 25:5 Gen 16:2 Gen 16:4 Gen 4:1 Gen 6:4 Isa 4:1 Gen 19:28 Gen 38:14-30 Gen 38:8-9 Mark 9:6

Genesis 19:32³²Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can go to bed with him and preserve our family line through our father.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 18:6-7 Gen 11:3 Gen 9:21 Hab 2:15-16 Mark 12:19 Prov 23:31-33

Genesis 19:33³³So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came in and went to bed with her father. But he was not aware of when she lay down with him or when she got up.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:15-16 Lev 18:6-7 Prov 20:1 Prov 23:29-35

Genesis 19:34³⁴So in the morning the older daughter said to the younger, “Since I went to bed with my father last night, let’s make him drunk again tonight. Then you go in and go to bed with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 3:9 Jer 3:3 Jer 5:3 Jer 6:15 Jer 8:12

Genesis 19:35³⁵So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and went to bed with him. But he was not aware of when she lay down with him or when she got up.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:11-12 1 Pet 4:7 Eccl 7:26 Luke 21:34 Prov 24:16 Ps 8:4

Genesis 19:36³⁶In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:15 1 Sam 15:33 Gen 19:8 Judg 1:7 Lev 18:6-7 Matt 7:2

Genesis 19:37³⁷The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 2:9 2 Kgs 3:1-27 2 Sam 8:1-18 Deut 2:19 Deut 23:3 Judg 3:1-31 Num 21:29 Num 22:1-41 Ruth 4:10 Num 24:1-25

Genesis 19:38³⁸The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben Ammi. He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 2:19 1 Sam 11:1-15 2 Sam 10:1-19 Deut 2:9 Deut 23:3 Isa 11:14 Judg 10:6-11:40 Neh 13:1-3 Neh 13:23-28 Ps 83:4-8

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