LOT


Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

GEN 11:31  Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his 
daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out 
from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they 
settled there.

12:4  So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram 
was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.

13:1  So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and 
everything he had, and Lot went with him.

2  Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

3  From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to 
the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier

5  Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and 
tents.

6  But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for 
their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.

7  And quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. 
The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.

8  So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, 
or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.

9  Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the 
left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left."

10  Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well 
watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. 
(This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

11  So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out 
toward the east. The two men parted company:

12  Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of 
the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

13  Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the 
LORD.

14  The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Lift up your 
eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.

14:11  The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all 
their food; then they went away.

12  They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since he 
was living in Sodom.

13  One who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now 
Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of 
Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram.

14  When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called 
out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as 
Dan.

15  During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed 
them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.

16  He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his 
possessions, together with the women and the other people.

19:1  The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting 
in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and 
bowed down with his face to the ground.

2  "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house. You can 
wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the 
morning." "No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."

3  But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his 
house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they 
ate.

4  Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of 
Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.

5  They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring 
them out to us so that we can have sex with them."

6  Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him

7  and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

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. And they said, "This fellow came 
here as an alien, 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."

14  So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry 
his daughters. He said, "Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD 
is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

15  With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take 
your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away 
when the city is punished."

16  When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife 
and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD 
was merciful to them.

17  As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, "Flee for your 
lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the 
mountains or you will be swept away!"

18  But Lot said to them, "No, my lords, please!

19  Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great 
kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't flee to the mountains; this 
disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.

20  Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me 
flee to it--it is very small, isn't it? Then my life will be spared."

21  He said to him, "Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not 
overthrow the town you speak of.

22  But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach 
it." (That is why the town was called Zoar.)

23  By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.

24  Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah--from 
the LORD out of the heavens.

25  Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all 
those living in the cities--and also the vegetation in the land.

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

27  Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where 
he had stood before the LORD.

28  He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the 
plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a 
furnace.

29  So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, 
and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where 
Lot had lived.

30  Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for 
he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.

31  One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and 
there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the 
earth.

32  Let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve 
our family line through our father."

33  That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter 
went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when 
she got up.

34  The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay 
with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in 
and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father."

35  So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger 
daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay 
down or when she got up.

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

37  The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father 
of the Moabites of today.

38  The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is 
the father of the Ammonites of today.

LUK 17:28  "It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and 
drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

29  But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and 
destroyed them all.

32  Remember Lot's wife!

2PE 2:7  and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the 
filthy lives of lawless men

8  (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented 
in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--

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