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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 19 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Genesis 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/18.htm" title="Genesis 18">◄</a> Genesis 19 <a href="../genesis/20.htm" title="Genesis 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/genesis/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">God Rescues Lot</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sent us to destroy it.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up! Get out of this place, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Lot said to them, “Oh, no, my lords. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Zoar means little">a</a></sup></span></p> <p class="heading">God Destroys Sodom</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> out of heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.</p> <p class="heading">Lot and His Daughters</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Moab sounds like the Hebrew for from father">b</a></sup></span> He is the father of the Moabites to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ben-ammi means son of my people">c</a></sup></span> He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> <i class="catch-word">Zoar</i> means <i>little</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">37</span> <i class="catch-word">Moab</i> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>from father</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">38</span> <i class="catch-word">Ben-ammi</i> means <i>son of my people</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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