Genesis 19

Genesis 19:5

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.

Who, crying unto Lot, said, Where are the men, which came unto thee this night, whose goodly form and beauty we noted; bring them forth to us, that we may use them to our lust.

Genesis 19:8

Only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

For, seeing they are come to my house as my guests, by the law of common equity and hospitality, they may well look to be safe guarded by me.

Genesis 19:11

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.

Then they smote all the Sodomites, that were at the door, both small and great, with such dizziness of brain and dimness of sight, that they went up and down, groping for Lot’s door, till they were weary; and could not find it.

Genesis 19:14

And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters.

Then Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, which were contracted to his daughters.

Genesis 19:17

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 when they had brought them, as it were by strong hand, out of the city, the angel said, Now escape for thy life: do not, whether for distrust, or curiosity, or pity, once look towards Sodom; and think it not enough, that thou hast voided the city; unless thou make speed also out of the whole plain, which hath been defiled by these abominations; haste thee, therefore, up to the next hill, lest thou be destroyed.

Genesis 19:20

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. See now, this town, which is hard by, and therefore easy for me to flee unto; and is withal a little one, and therefore not much for thee to grant, and by all likelihood, not so notoriously evil as these other, that are more frequent and populous: O let me go thither for shelter; behold, it is no great thing that I ask of thee, and yet such as may be to my safety and preservation.

Genesis 19:22

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Haste thee then, and be thou there preserved; for, such is my merciful respect to thee, that it holds my hands so, that I cannot take revenge on these wicked cities, till thou be in safety: therefore, upon this occasion of Lot’s argument from the smallness of the city, it was ever after called Zoar.

Genesis 19:24

Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.

Then God the Son rained down upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other two cities of the plain, fire and brimstone, from God the Father out of heaven.

Genesis 19:26

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Now his wife, that stood lingering behind him, whether through love or pity of the place, or expectation of her sons-in-law, or distrust, or curious desire to see the manner of the judgment, looked back towards Sodom; and therefore was inwrapped in the judgment; and, through the extreme rage of that fire and brimstone, wherewith she was overwhelmed, was miraculously made a pillar of a white or saltish kind of stone.

Genesis 19:30

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.

But he feared to tarry in Zoar, through the weakness of his faith, notwithstanding God’s promise to him; whether for that it was so near to Sodom; or whether for the manners of the place; but chose rather to dwell solitary in a cave, in the mountain, both he and his two daughters.

Genesis 19:31

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.

And the elder said to the younger, Our father is now old, and cannot long be in any possibility of issue; and in all these parts there is not left a man, which might converse with us, for generation.

Genesis 19:32

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Come, we know well that our father will never by sober per-

Genesis 19:33

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 he, being oppressed with wine, was drawn unawares unto this filthiness, not considering what he did; and not perceiving, either when he lay down or rose up.