1And 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;

2And 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.

3And 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.

4But 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:

5And 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.

6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

7And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

8Behold 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 isgood in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellowcame 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.

10But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

11And 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.

12And 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:

13For 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.

14And 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.

15And 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.

16And 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.

17And 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.

18And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

19Behold 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:

20Behold 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.

21And 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.

22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

28And 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.

29And 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.

30And 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.

31And 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:

32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

33And 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.

34And 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.

35And 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.

36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

37And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same isthe father of the Moabites unto this day.

38And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

And there came two Angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate in the gate of Sodome: and Lot seeing them, rose vp to meet them, and he bowed himselfe with his face toward the ground.

2And he said, Beholde now my Lords, turne in, I pray you, into your seruants house, and tarie all night, and wash your feete, and ye shall rise vp early and goe on your wayes. And they said, Nay: but we wil abide in the street all night.

3And he pressed vpon them greatly, and they turned in vnto him, and entred into his house: and he made them a feast, and did bake vnleauened bread, and they did eate.

4 But before they lay downe, the men of the citie, euen the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and yong, all the people from euery quarter.

5And they called vnto Lot, and said vnto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out vnto vs, that we may know them.

6And Lot went out at the doore vnto them, & shut the doore after him,

7And said, I pray you, brethren, doe not so wickedly.

8Behold now, I haue two daughters, which haue not knowen man; let mee, I pray you, bring them out vnto you, and doe ye to them, as is good in your eyes: onely vnto these men do nothing: for therefore came they vnder the shadow of my roofe.

9And they said, Stand backe. And they said againe, This one fellow came in to soiourne, and he will needs bee a Iudge: Now wil we deale worse with thee, then with them. And they pressed sore vpon the man, euen Lot, and came neere to breake the doore.

10But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the doore.

11And they smote the men that were at the doore of the house, with blindnes, both small and great: so that they wearied themselues to finde the doore.

12 And the men said vnto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? sonne in law, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring them out of this place.

13For we will destroy this place, because the crie of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD: and the LORD hath sent vs to destroy it.

14And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get yee out of this place: for the LORD wil destroy this citie: but hee seemed as one that mocked, vnto his sonnes in law.

15 And when the morning arose, then the Angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, & thy two daughters, which are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquitie of the citie.

16And while he lingred, the men laid hold vpon his hand, and vpon the hand of his wife, and vpon the hand of his two daughters, the LORD being mercifull vnto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the citie.

17 And it came to passe, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life, looke not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plaine: escape to the mountaine, lest thou bee consumed.

18And Lot said vnto them, Oh not so, my Lord.

19Beholde now, thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed vnto me, in sauing my life, and I cannot escape to the mountaine, lest some euill take me, and I die.

20Behold now, this citie is neere to flee vnto, and it is a litle one: Oh let me escape thither, (is it not a litle one?) and my soule shall liue.

21And he said vnto him, See, I haue accepted thee concerning this thing, that I will not ouerthrow this citie, for the which thou hast spoken.

22Haste thee, escape thither: for I cannot doe any thing till thou bee come thither: therefore the name of the citie was called Zoar.

23 The sunne was risen vpon the earth, when Lot entred into Zoar.

24Then the LORD rained vpon Sodome & vpon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire, from the LORD out of heauen.

25And he ouerthrew those cities, and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew vpon the ground.

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

27 And Abraham gate vp earely in the morning, to the place, where hee stood before the LORD.

28And he looked toward Sodome and Gomorrah, & toward all the land of the plaine, and beheld, and loe, the smoke of the countrey went vp as the smoke of a furnace.

29 And it came to passe, when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, that God remembred Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the ouerthrow, when he ouerthrew the cities, in the which Lot dwelt.

30 And Lot went vp out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountaine, and his two daughters with him: for hee feared to dwell in Zoar, and he dwelt in a caue, he and his two daughters.

31And the first borne saide vnto the yonger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth, to come in vnto vs, after the maner of all the earth.

32Come, let vs make our father drinke wine, and we will lye with him, that we may preserue seed of our father.

33And they made their father drinke wine that night, & the first borne went in, and lay with her father: and he perceiued not, when shee lay downe, nor when she arose.

34And it came to passe on the morrow, that the first borne said vnto the yonger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let vs make him drinke wine this night also, and goe thou in, and lye with him, that we may preserue seed of our father.

35And they made their father drinke wine that night also, and the yonger arose, and lay with him: and he perceiued not, when she lay downe, nor when she arose.

36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with childe by their father.

37And the first borne bare a sonne, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites vnto this day.

38And the yonger, she also bare a sonne, and called his name, Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon, vnto this day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

V == Rom 1:24 , 27 ;' Jude 1:7

 

 

VI == Judg 19:23

 

 

 

VIII == Judg 19:24

 

 

 

IX == Ex 2:14 ; 2nd Peter 2:7-8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XI == 2nd Kings 6:18 ; Acts 13:11

 

 

XII == 2nd Peter 2:7 , 9

 

 

XIII == 1st Chr 21:15

 

 

 

XIV == Ex 9:21 ; Num 16:21 , 45 ; 1st Chr 21:15 ;Matt 1:18 ; Luke 17:28 ; 24:11

 

XV == Num 16:24 , 26 ; Rev 18:4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XVII == Gen 19:26 ; 1st Kings 19:3 ; Matt 24:16-18 ; Luke 9:62 ; Lk 17:31-32

 

XVIII == Acts 10:14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XXI == Job 42:8-9 ; Ps 145:19

 

 

XXII == Gen 13:10 ; 14:2 ; 19:20 ; 32:25-26 Ex 32:10 ; Deit 9:14 ; Mark 6:5

 

 

XXIV == Deut 29:23 ; Isa 13:19 ; Jer 20:16 ; 50:40 ; Ezek 16:49-50 ; Hos 11:8 ; Amos 4:11 ; Zeph 2:9 ; Luke 17:29 ; 2nd Peter 2:6 ; Jude 1:7 ; REV 14:10 ; 20:10 ; 21:8

XXV == Gen 14:3 ; Ps 107:34 ; Lk 10:12

XXVI == Luke 17:31-32

 

XXVIII == Rev 9:2 ; 18:9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XXX == Gen 19:17-18

 

 

 

XXXI == Gen 18:2 , 4 ; 38:8-9 ; Deut 25:5

 

XXXII ==Mark 12:19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XXXVII == Deut 2:9

 

 

XXXVIII == Deut 2:19

 

1 The two angels reached Sodom in the evening, as Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to greet them; and bowing down with his face to the ground,

2 he said, "Please, gentlemen, come aside into your servant's house for the night, and bathe your feet; you can get up early to continue your journey." But they replied, "No, we shall pass the night in the town square."

3 He urged them so strongly, however, that they turned aside to his place and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking cakes without leaven, and they dined.

4 Before they went to bed, all the townsmen of Sodom, both young and old - all the people to the last man - closed in on the house.

5 They called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to your house tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have intimacies with them."

6 Lot went out to meet them at the entrance. When he had shut the door behind him,

7 he said, "I beg you, my brothers, not to do this wicked thing.

8 I have two daughters who have never had intercourse with men. Let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you please. But don't do anything to these men, for you know they have come under the shelter of my roof."

9 They replied, "Stand back! This fellow," they sneered, "came here as an immigrant, and now he dares to give orders! We'll treat you worse than them!" With that, they pressed hard against Lot, moving in closer to break down the door.

10 But his guests put out their hands, pulled Lot inside with them, and closed the door;

11 at the same time they struck the men at the entrance of the house, one and all, with such a blinding light that they were utterly unable to reach the doorway.

12 Then the angels said to Lot: "Who else belongs to you here? Your sons (sons-in-law) and your daughters and all who belong to you in the city - take them away from it!

13 We are about to destroy this place, for the outcry reaching the LORD against those in the city is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."

14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had contracted marriage with his daughters. "Get up and leave this place," he told them; "the LORD is about to destroy the city." But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

15 As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, "On your way! Take with you your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."

16 When he hesitated, the men, by the LORD'S mercy, seized his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters and led them to safety outside the city.

17 As soon as they had been brought outside, he was told: "Flee for your life! Don't look back or stop anywhere on the Plain. Get off to the hills at once, or you will be swept away."

18 "Oh, no, my lord!" replied Lot.

19 "You have already thought enough of your servant to do me the great kindness of intervening to save my life. But I cannot flee to the hills to keep the disaster from overtaking me, and so I shall die.

20 Look, this town ahead is near enough to escape to. It's only a small place. Let me flee there - it's a small place, isn't it? - that my life may be saved."

21 "Well, then," he replied, "I will also grant you the favor you now ask. I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

22 Hurry, escape there! I cannot do anything until you arrive there." That is why the town is called Zoar.

23 The sun was just rising over the earth as Lot arrived in Zoar;

24 at the same time the LORD rained down sulphurous fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah (from the LORD out of heaven).

25 He overthrew those cities and the whole Plain, together with the inhabitants of the cities and the produce of the soil.

26 But Lot's wife looked back, and she was turned into a pillar of salt.

27 Early the next morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood in the LORD'S presence.

28 As he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole region of the Plain, he saw dense smoke over the land rising like fumes from a furnace.

29 Thus it came to pass: when God destroyed the Cities of the Plain, he was mindful of Abraham by sending Lot away from the upheaval by which God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living.

30 Since Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, he and his two daughters went up from Zoar and settled in the hill country, where he lived with his two daughters in a cave.

31 The older one said to the younger: "Our father is getting old, and there is not a man on earth to unite with us as was the custom everywhere.

32 Come, let us ply our father with wine and then lie with him, that we may have offspring by our father."

33 So that night they plied their father with wine, and the older one went in and lay with her father; but he was not aware of her lying down or her getting up.

34 Next day the older one said to the younger: "Last night it was I who lay with my father. Let us ply him with wine again tonight, and then you go in and lie with him, that we may both have offspring by our father."

35 So that night, too, they plied their father with wine, and then the younger one went in and lay with him; but again he was not aware of her lying down or her getting up.

36 Thus both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.

37 The older one gave birth to a son whom she named Moab, saying, "From my father." He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.

38 The younger one, too, gave birth to a son, and she named him Ammon, saying, "The son of my kin." He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.

1. Lot, he was sitting at the gate, possibly socially, but probably as an elder to judge, see Deut. 21:19-21. v 2,3. He offers full hospitality, even to preparing a feast, probably knowing what would happen to them if they slept in the open. v 4,5. Gross lust of these homosexuals gathering from all over the whole town. Unleavened bread was probably not because he suspected they were holy, but because leavened bread would not have time to rise. v 6-8. Lot was brave to go outside his door to them. Offering his virgin daughters was, and seems terrible to us, but their custom was to protect their guests at all costs, even if they were enemies. How wrong for him to raise his family in that environment. v 9. Lot was not really accepted by the locals. In their contempt for him, they virtually crushed him against his own door. v 10,11. Lot was rescued and protected by blinding eyes & minds of the evil men. v 12-14. Lot’s attempt to spare his son in laws and married daughters was futile. He had apparently lost testimony over his sons mentioned in verse 12, and did not even attempt to contact them.
15 to 29 Gomorrah and Sodom Destroyed; Lot’s Escape

v 15,16. Dawn came like a normal day, and Lot had to be literally dragged out.

v 17-20. Lot finally realized judgment was definitely coming, if they were not even to look back, and was afraid he would not make it to the mountain.

v 21, Amazingly they kept compromising with Lot, but they were to spare him

.V 22 Segor: That is, a little one.

v 23-26. What appeared to be the start of sunny day turned to total destruction of the area. The coming of Christ will be just as sudden. Lot’s wife not only looked back, she lingered, probably thinking of all she had left behind. God did not turn her into a pillar of salt, but by delaying she was overcome by the sulphurous fumes, and the erupting salt mud encrusted her body, leaving her in a growing heap or pillar of salt.

 v 24 Compare Ezek. 16:49 These four vices, pride, excess, idleness and contempt of the poor are four principal causes of such abomination, wherefore, in addition to homosexuality, they were so horribly punished.

v 27-29. Abraham could look through a gap in the hills and see the smoke of the destruction of all the cities in that area, but God had remembered his petition and spared Lot. Geologists have determined that at some time subterranean gases ignited, exploding and spewing salt, sulfur and asphalt throughout the area. The Dead Sea has risen and the area of those cities at the southern end is now under water. Houses were rock put together with asphalt and burned furiously. Over 95% of the sulfur rocks strewn in that area will still ignite. Admah and Zeboiim and all cities but Zoar were also destroyed, Deut. 29:23. Moses, Josephus and Peter spoke of these cities toward the west of the Dead Sea.

THE ORIGIN OF THE AMMONITES AND THE MOABITES V 30 TO 38

v 30-38. Though promised protection at Zoar, the inferno’s fumes and possibly rising water frightened Lot into fleeing to the mountain to a cave where he should have gone at first. It was wise to take along a supply of wine, but not wise in how he used it. In his grief over the loss of his wife and all possessions, the daughters had no trouble getting him drunk and causing this incestuous relationship. In their warped minds they may have been repulsed at marrying Canaanites and thought their father was their only hope, maybe even a hope of bearing Messiah. Or, if all others died at Zoar, they may have thought he was the only man left alive. Their Moabite (of mother’s father) and Ammonite (son of kindred) descendants caused Israel a lot of trouble. Illustrate Lot’s backsliding a stair.