Genesis 19:22-32

22 "Hurry, escape there, for I cannot * do anything until you arrive there." Therefore * the name of the town was called ¹Zoar.

23 The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

24 Then the LORD ²rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,

25 and ³He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

26 But his wife, from behind him, ⁴looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to ⁵the place where * he had stood before the LORD;

28 and he looked down toward * Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward * all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, ⁶the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.

29 Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that ⁷God remembered Abraham, and ⁸sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Lot Is Debased

30 Lot went up from Zoar, and ⁹stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to ¹⁰come in to us after the manner of the earth.

32 "Come, ¹¹let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father."

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Genesis 19:22-32 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 19

The contents of this chapter are Lot's entertainment of two angels that came to Sodom, Ge 19:1-3; the rude behaviour of the men of Sodom towards them, who for it were smote with blindness, Ge 19:4-11; the deliverance of Lot, his wife and two daughters, by means of the angels he entertained, Ge 19:12-17; the sparing of the city of Zoar at the entreaty of Lot, to which he was allowed to flee, Ge 19:18-22; the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, Ge 19:23-25; Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt for looking back, Ge 19:26; Abraham's view of the conflagration of the cities, Ge 19:28,29; Lot's betaking himself to a mountain, and dwelling in a cave with his two daughters, by whom he had two sons, the one called Moab, and the other Benammi, Ge 19:30-38.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. Genesis 13:10; Genesis 14:2
2. Deuteronomy 29:23; Psalms 11:6; Isaiah 13:19; Ezekiel 16:49, 50; Luke 17:29; Jude 7
3. Deuteronomy 29:23; Psalms 107:34; Isaiah 13:19; Lamentations 4:6; 2 Peter 2:6
4. Genesis 19:17; Luke 17:32
5. Genesis 18:22
6. Revelation 9:2; Revelation 18:9
7. Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy 9:5, 27
8. 2 Peter 2:7
9. Genesis 19:17, 19
10. Genesis 16:2, 4; Genesis 38:8; Deuteronomy 25:5
11. Luke 21:34

Footnotes 11

[a]. I.e. small
[b]. Lit "circle"
[c]. Lit "circle"
[d]. Lit "kiln"
[e]. Lit "circle"
[f]. Lit "dwelt"
[g]. Lit "mountain"
[h]. Lit "dwell"
[i]. Lit "dwelt"
[j]. Or "in the land"
[k]. Lit "seed from our father"