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Genesis 19

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Genesis 19 Overview

Genesis 19 records the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Two angels enter Sodom, Lot receives them, and the men of the city surround the house with violent sexual intent. The angels strike the attackers with blindness and urgently lead Lot, his wife, and two daughters out. Fire and brimstone destroy the cities; Lot’s wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt. The chapter ends with Lot’s daughters intoxicating their father and conceiving Moab and Ben-ammi.

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Before you read Genesis 19

Coming from

Genesis 18 ends with Abraham interceding while the visitors move toward Sodom.

In this chapter

Sodom’s corruption reaches open violent wickedness, God rescues Lot by mercy, judgment falls, and the aftermath shows that escape from a corrupt city does not automatically remove corrupt thinking.

Leads into

Genesis 20 returns to Abraham and Sarah, where another sister-wife episode occurs before Isaac’s birth.

Key understanding

Genesis 19 records the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Two angels enter Sodom, Lot receives them, and the men of the city surround the house with violent sexual intent. The angels strike the attackers with blindness and urgently lead Lot, his wife, and two daughters out. Fire and brimstone destroy the cities; Lot’s wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt. The chapter ends with Lot’s daughters intoxicating their father and conceiving Moab and Ben-ammi.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Truth 1

Hospitality and protection stand against Sodom’s mob violence.

Truth 2

The city’s sin is public, aggressive, and collective.

Truth 3

Lot hesitates, and the angels physically lead the family out because of the LORD’s mercy.

Truth 4

Judgment is decisive and remembered throughout Scripture.

Truth 5

The final cave episode exposes moral damage lingering in Lot’s household.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Connection 1

Jesus repeatedly uses Sodom as a standard of severe judgment.

Connection 2

2 Peter 2:6–9 calls Lot righteous and describes his vexation by the wicked conduct around him.

Connection 3

Jude 7 highlights Sodom’s sexual immorality and strange flesh.

Connection 4

Luke 17:28–32 invokes Lot’s days and says, “Remember Lot’s wife.”

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Keep this clear 1

Sodom’s sins elsewhere include pride, fullness, neglect of poor, and abominations; Genesis 19 itself unmistakably includes attempted gang sexual violence.

Keep this clear 2

Lot’s offer of his daughters is narrated, not approved.

Keep this clear 3

Lot is rescued because of divine mercy and Abraham is remembered; the text does not celebrate every aspect of Lot’s conduct.

Keep this clear 4

The incestuous actions of Lot’s daughters are descriptive origins of Moab and Ammon, not moral endorsements.

Read Genesis 19 watching for…Explore deeper

The contrast between Lot’s hospitality and the city’s demand.

Lot’s hesitation during urgent rescue.

Every command not to look back or remain in the plain.

Abraham viewing the smoke from afar.

How the chapter ends with Moab and Ammon entering the biblical story.

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Chapter outline4 sections
1-11The angels come to Lot in Sodom12-22Lot is warned and escapes23-29Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed30-38Lot and his daughters in the cave
1

And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

2

And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

3

And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

4

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

5

And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

6

And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

7

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

8

Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

9

And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

10

But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

11

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

12

And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

13

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

14

And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

15

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

16

And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

17

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

18

And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

19

Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

20

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

21

And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

22

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23

The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

24

Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

25

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

26

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

28

And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

29

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

30

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31

And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

32

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

33

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

35

And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

36

Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

37

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

38

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

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