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Genesis Chapter 19

Lot entertains angels

19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at evening ; and Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground ;

19:2 And he said, Observe now, my lords, turn in, I beg you, into your servant’s house, and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, No; but we will stay in the street all night.
19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly ; and they turned in to him, and entered into his house ; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, surrounded the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter
19:5 And they called to Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
, and said to him, Where [are] the men which came in to you this night ? bring them out to us, that we may know them.
19:6 And Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
went out at the door to them, and shut the door after him,
19:7 And said, I beg you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
19:8 Look now, I have two daughters which have not known man ; let me, I beg you, bring them out to you, and do you to them as [is] good in your eyes only to these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said [again], This one [fellow ] came in to temporary stays, and he will needs be a judge now will we deal worse with you, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, [even] Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
, and came near to break the door.
19:10 But the men put out their hand, and pulled Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
into the house to them, and shut to the door.
19:11 And they struck 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.
19:12 And the men said to Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
, have you here any besides ? son in law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whatever you have in the city, bring [them] out of this place
19:13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
; and YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
has sent us to destroy it.
19:14 And Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
went out, and spoke to his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said,
You get up, out of this place ; for YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
will destroy this city. But he seemed as someone that made fun to his sons in law.
19:15 And when the morning got up, then the angels hurried Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
, saying, Get up, take your wife, and your two daughters, which are here ; unless you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
19:16 And while he took his time, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters ; YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
being merciful to him and they brought him forth, and set him outside the city.
19:17 And it so happened, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for your life ; look not behind you, neither stay you in all the plain ; escape to the mountain, unless you be consumed.

Lot’s escape to Zoar


19:18 And Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
said to them, Oh, not so, my Lord
19:19 See now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have shown to me in saving my life ; and I cannot escape to the mountain, unless some evil take me, and I die
19:20 Look now, this city [is] near to flee to, and it [is] a little one Oh, let me escape there([is] it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
19:21 And he said to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which you have spoken.
19:22 You hurry, escape there; for I cannot do anything till you be come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
19:23 The sun was risen on the earth when Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
entered into Zoar.

Cities of the plain destroyed


19:24 Then YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
rained on Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
out of heaven ;
19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
19:27 And Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here
got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here

19:28 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.
19:29 And it so happened, when Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator
destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator
remembered Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here
, and sent Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
lived.
19:30 And Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to stay in Zoar and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.
19:31 And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth
19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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, or when she got up.
19:34 And it came to pass the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, See, I lay last night with my father let us make him drink wine tonight also ; and go you in, [and] lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also and the younger got up, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, or when she got up.
19:36 This were both the daughters of Lotלוֹט
Lōṭ, lit. “veil” or “covering”. Nephew of Abraham For more info click here
with child by their father.

Birth of Moab and Ammon


19:37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab the same [is] the father of the Moabites to this day.
19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-Ammiבן־ עמי
for “son of my people” was the son of Lot and his youngest daughter. He became the father of the Ammonites”
and his youngest daughter. He became the father of the Ammonites”
the same [is] the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

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