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Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Genesis 19
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of
Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to
meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; And he said,
Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry
all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways.
And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. And he pressed
upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and
he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. But
before they lay down, the men of the city, even
the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people
from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this
night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the
door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do
not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let
me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these
men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. And they
said, Stand back. And they said again,
This one fellow came in to sojourn,
and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.
And they pressed sore upon the man, even
Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men put forth their hand, and
pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men
that were at the door of the house
with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find
the door. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law,
and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: For we will
destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of
the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot
went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and
said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord
will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. And
when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy
wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the
iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand,
and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they
brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it came to pass, when they
had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not
behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest
thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: Behold now, thy
servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which
thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain,
lest some evil take me, and I die: Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is
a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is
it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I have
accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city,
for the which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any
thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called
Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the Lord
out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife
looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. And Abraham gat
up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord: And he looked toward Sodom and
Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke
of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. And it came to pass, 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 the which Lot
dwelt. And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two
daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he
and his two daughters. And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the
earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Come, let us make
our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of
our father. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn
went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor
when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto
the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink
wine this night also; and go thou in, and
lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their
father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and
he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the
daughters of Lot with child by their father. And the firstborn bare a son, and
called his name Moab: the same is the
father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and
called his name Ben-ammi: the same is
the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
Lot was good, but there was not one more of the
same character in the city.
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