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Genesis 19:15-29
Lot's Wife
Becomes a Pillar of Salt
Sodom and
Gomorrah
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- 19:15
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."
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- 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.
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- 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!"
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- 18 But Lot said to
them, "No, my lords, please!
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- 19 Your servant has
found favor in your eyes, and you have shown
great kindness to me in sparing my life.
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- But I can't flee to
the mountains; this disaster will overtake me,
and I'll die.
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- 20 Look, here is a
town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let
me flee to itit is very small, isn't it?
Then my life will be spared."
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- 21 He said to him,
"Very well, I will grant this request too; I
will not overthrow the town you speak of.
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- 22 But flee there
quickly, because I cannot do anything until you
reach it." (That is why the town was called
Zoar. )
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- 23 By the time Lot
reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.
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- 24 Then the LORD
rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and
Gomorrahfrom the LORD out of the heavens.
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- 25 Thus he overthrew
those cities and the entire plain, including all
those living in the citiesand also the
vegetation in the land.
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- 26 But Lot's wife
looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
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- 27 Early the next
morning Abraham got up and returned to the place
where he had stood before the LORD.
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- 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.
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- 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.
This
is the Word of the Lord ... It is meant to change
the way that we think, and the way that we live.
Commentary
by Bob Pardue
Sodom and
Gomorrah
This passage about Sodom and
Gomorrah really begins back in Genesis 19:1 when
the angels appeared in the square of
Sodom.
I suggest that you read the
verses leading up to chapter 15 because they will
give you some insight as to what was going on in
Sodom and Gomorrah at the time of this
writing.
Lot had protected the angels
from a crowd who wanted to defile them by offering
his own daughters up for rape by the raging mob.
This tells the story of how low these two cities
had become.
Still, Lot had hesitated to
leave his home.
You see, Lot had a great deal
of wealth and possessions in Sodom so leaving the
city was the furthermost thing on his
mind.
We may say that Lot was
greedy and self-centered but what about us? Lot's
choice seems clear with our 20/20 hindsight but Lot
was drawn in by the glitz and glimmer of a sin city
with attractions made of paper.
We also live in a world of
temptation and worldly pleasure. We can purchase
almost anything under the sun and it becomes easier
to ignore God's calling for our lives.
Let's try not to be like
Lot's wife and cling to the past by "looking back".
We, like her, will have no future as long as we
pine over things lost so let's move forward in what
God is asking us to do.
Don't look
back.
Love in Christ
- Bob
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Verses about Lot, Abraham and Sodom and
Gomorrah are from Life Application Study Bible:
New International Version
Comments are welcome. Please email
me with any questions or comments you
may have.
More Lessons from the
Bible
Genesis
18:1-15 - Three Visitors Come to
Abraham
- Sarah and
Abraham were very old when they were visited by 3
men so it was almost impossible to believe that
they could have a son at this time in their lives.
But, is anything too difficult for God?
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