Genesis 19:8-13

8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.

11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”

Genesis 19:8-13 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

• 1. Judges 19:24; 2 Peter 2:7-8
• 2. Genesis 23:4
• 3. S Genesis 13:8; Exodus 2:14; Acts 7:27
• 4. S Genesis 18:2
• 5. Deuteronomy 28:28-29; 2 Kings 6:18; Acts 13:11
• 6. S Genesis 6:18; Genesis 7:1
• 7. Exodus 12:29; 2 Samuel 24:16; 2 Kings 19:35; 1 Chronicles 21:12; 2 Chronicles 32:21
• 8. Genesis 18:20
• 9. 1 Chronicles 21:15; Psalms 78:49; Jeremiah 21:12; Jeremiah 25:18; Jeremiah 44:22; Jeremiah 51:45