Genesis 19:17-21
19:17 When they had brought them outside, they
said, “Run
for your lives! Don’t look
behind you or stop anywhere in the valley!
Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”
19:18 But Lot said to them, “No, please, Lord!
19:19 Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.
19:20 Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”
19:21 “Very well,” he replied, “I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.
Genesis 19:1
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
19:1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.
Genesis 16:2
16:2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Since
the
Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with
my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.”
Abram did what
Sarai told him.
Acts 9:13-14
9:13 But Ananias replied,
“Lord, I have heard from many people
about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem,
9:14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison
all who call on your name!”