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Genesis 19:1-29 — Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

Gen.19.1-29

¹The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed with his face to the ground. ²He said, “Please now, my lords, turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night. Wash your feet, then rise early and go on your way.” But they said, “No. We will spend the night in the square.” ³But he pressed them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house. He made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. ⁴Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young to old, all the people from every quarter. ⁵They called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may have relations with them.” ⁶Lot went out to them at the entrance and shut the door behind him. ⁷He said, “Please, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.” ⁸Look now, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Please let me bring them out to you, and do to them as seems good in your eyes. Only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shelter of my roof." ⁹But they said, “Get back!” And they said, “This fellow came to live here as an outsider, and now he keeps acting as a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed hard against the man, against Lot, and moved forward to break down the door. ¹⁰But the men reached out their hands, brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. ¹¹And they struck the men who were at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the least to the greatest, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the entrance. ¹²Then the men said to Lot, "Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and everyone who belongs to you in the city—bring them out of the place. ¹³For we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it." ¹⁴So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. ¹⁵As daybreak was rising, the angels pressed Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” ¹⁶But he lingered. So the men took hold of his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, because the LORD had compassion on him; and they brought him out and set him outside the city. ¹⁷And when they had brought them outside, he said, “Escape for your life. Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in all the plain. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.” ¹⁸But Lot said to them, "No, please, my lord. ¹⁹Look now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown great kindness to me by preserving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die. ²⁰Look now, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is a small one. Please let me escape there—is it not a small one?—that my life may live." ²¹And he said to him, "See, I grant you this favor also: I will not overthrow the town of which you have spoken. ²²Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar . ²³The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar. ²⁴Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven. ²⁵He overthrew those cities and all the plain , and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. ²⁶But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. ²⁷And Abraham rose early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD. ²⁸He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain, and he saw that the smoke of the land was going up like the smoke of a kiln. ²⁹So it was that when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

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4/11/2026

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