<p class="bodytext">After him the priests worked, men of the nearby district.

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain<n id="1" /> and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, as far as Zoar.

The singers<n id="1" /> were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the settlements of the Netophathites

So he overthrew those cities and all that region,<n id="1" /> including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew<n id="2" /> from the ground.

He looked out toward<n id="1" /> Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region.<n id="2" /> As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.<n id="3" />p>

The one hundred talents of silver were used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the special curtain &#8211; one hundred bases for one hundred talents, one talent per base.

But he said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Whatever happens, I want to go!&#8221; So Joab<n id="2" /> said to him, &#8220;Then go!&#8221; So Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Jordan plain, and he passed the Cushite.p>

When they had brought them outside, they<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Run<n id="2" /> for your lives! Don&#8217;t look<n id="3" /> behind you or stop anywhere in the valley!<n id="4" /> Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So when God destroyed<n id="1" /> the cities of the region,<n id="2" /> God honored<n id="3" /> Abraham&#8217;s request. He removed Lot<n id="4" /> from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed<n id="5" /> the cities Lot had lived in.p>

Amaziah asked the prophet:<n id="1" /> &#8220;But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?&#8221; The prophet<n id="2" /> replied, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is capable of giving you more than that.&#8221;