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Genesis 19:17-30 The Story of Lot and the Destruction of Sodom

17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”

18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please!

19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.

20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”

21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)

23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.

24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.

25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.

26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

30 Lot and His Daughters
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.

Cross References for Genesis 19:17-30

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Genesis 14:10 - Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, s... Click to read the verse Genesis 14:10 Click to read the verse Genesis 14:10

Genesis 19:22 - But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town... Click to read the verse Genesis 19:22 Click to read the verse Genesis 19:22

Genesis 19:30 - Lot and His Daughters Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he ... Click to read the verse Genesis 19:30 Click to read the verse Genesis 19:30

Genesis 18:22 - The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Click to read the verse Genesis 18:22 Click to read the verse Genesis 18:22

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