Genesis 19:12-16

12 Then the two men said to Lot, "Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever * you have in the city, bring them out of the place;
13 for we are about to destroy this place, because 1their outcry has become so great before the LORD that 2the LORD has sent us to destroy it."
14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, "Up, 3get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city." 4But he appeared * to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
15 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."
16 But he hesitated. So the men 5seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for 6the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside * the city.

Genesis 19:12-16 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.

Cross References 6

  • 1. Genesis 18:20
  • 2. Leviticus 26:30-33; Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 28:45; 1 Chronicles 21:15
  • 3. Numbers 16:21, 45; Revelation 18:4
  • 4. Jeremiah 43:1, 2
  • 5. Deuteronomy 5:15; Deuteronomy 6:21; Deuteronomy 7:8; 2 Peter 2:7
  • 6. Exodus 34:7; Psalms 32:10; Psalms 33:18, 19

Footnotes 4

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