Genesis:19

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* And there came two (note :)In which we see God 's provident care in preserving his : even though he does not reveal himself to all alike : for Lot had but two angels , and Abraham three .(:note ) 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 ; * And he saide , See my Lords , I pray you turne in nowe into your seruants house , and tarie all night , and wash your feete , &amp ; ye shall rise vp early and goe your wayes . Who saide , Nay , but we will abide in the streete all night . * And (note :)That is , he begged them so insistently .(:note ) 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 Not because they had need , but because the time was not yet come for them to reveal themselves . did eat . * But before they lay down , the men of the city , [even ] the men of Sodom , compassed the house round , both old and young , (note :)Nothing is more dangerous than to live where sin reigns : for it corrupts all .(:note ) all the people from every quarter : * Who crying vnto Lot said to him , Where are the men , which came to thee this night ? Bring them out vnto vs that we may knowe them . * Then Lot went out at the doore vnto them , and shut the doore after him , * And said , I pray you , my brethren , do not so wickedly . * Behold now , I have two (note :)He deserves praise for defending his guests , but he is to be blamed for seeking unlawful means .(:note ) 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 ; That I should preserve them from all injury . for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof . * Then they said , Away hence , and they said , He is come alone as a stranger , and shall he iudge and rule ? We will nowe deale worse with thee then with them . So they preassed sore vpon Lot himselfe , and came to breake the doore . * But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them &amp ; shut to ye doore . * Then they smote the men that were at the doore of the house with blindnes both small and great , so that they were wearie in seeking the doore . * Then the men said vnto Lot , Whom hast thou yet here ? Either sonne in lawe , or thy sonnes , or thy daughters , or whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie , bring it out of this place . * For (note :)This proves that the angels are ministers , both to execute God 's wrath and to declare his favour .(:note ) 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 . * Then Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe , which maried his daughters , and said , Arise , get you out of this place : for the Lord will destroy the citie : but he seemed to his sonnes in lawe as though he had mocked . * And when the morning arose , the Angels hasted Lot , saying , Arise , take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here , lest thou be destroyed in the punishment of the citie . * And while he (note :)The mercy of God strives to overcome man 's slowness in following God 's calling .(:note ) 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 . * And it came to pass , when they had brought them forth abroad , that he said , Escape for thy life ; (note :)He willed him to flee God 's judgments and not to be sorry to leave that rich country , full of vain pleasures .(:note ) look not behind thee , neither stay thou in all the plain ; escape to the mountain , lest thou be consumed . * And Lot saide vnto them , Not so , I pray thee , my Lord . * Behold now , thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight , and thou hast magnified thy mercie , which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauing my life : and I cannot escape in the mountaine , least some euill take me , and I die . * Behold now , this city [is ] near to flee unto , and it [is ] a little one : Oh , let me escape thither , ([is ] it not a (note :)Though it is little , yet it is great enough to save my life : in which he errs by choosing another place than the angel had appointed him .(:note ) little one ?) and my soul shall live . * Then he said vnto him , Beholde , I haue receiued thy request also concerning this thing , that I will not ouerthrow this citie , for the which thou hast spoken . * Haste thee , escape thither ; for I (note :)Because God 's commandment was to destroy the city and to save Lot .(:note ) cannot do any thing till thou be come thither . Therefore the name of the city was called Which before was called Belah , in ( Gen_14:2 ). Zoar . * The sunne did rise vpon the earth , when Lot entred into Zoar . * Then the Lord rained vpon Sodom and vpon Gomorah brimstone , &amp ; fire from the Lord out of heauen , * And ouerthrewe those cities and all the plaine , and all the inhabitants of the cities ; and that that grewe vpon the earth . * But his wife looked back from behind him , and she became a (note :)Concerning the body only : this was a notable monument of God 's vengeance to all who passed that way .(:note ) pillar of salt . * And Abraham rising vp earely in ye morning went to the place , where he had stand before the Lord , * And looking towarde Sodom and Gomorah and toward all the land of the plaine , behold , he sawe the smoke of the lande mounting vp as the smoke of a fornace . * But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plaine , God thought vpon Abraham , and sent Lot out from the middes of the destruction , when he ouerthrewe the cities , wherein Lot dwelled . * And Lot went up out of Zoar , and dwelt in the mountain , and his two daughters with him ; for he (note :)Having felt God 's mercy , he did not dare provoke him again by continuing among the wicked .(:note ) feared to dwell in Zoar : and he dwelt in a cave , he and his two daughters . * And the firstborn said unto the younger , Our father [is ] old , and [there is ] not a man in the (note :)Meaning in the country which the Lord had now destroyed .(:note ) earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth : * Come , let us make our father (note :)For unless he had been drunk , he would never have done that abominable act .(:note ) drink wine , and we will lie with him , that we may preserve seed of our father . * So they made their father drinke wine that night , and the elder went and lay with her father : but he perceiued not , neither whe she lay downe , neither when she rose vp . * And on the morowe the elder saide to the yonger , Behold , yester night lay I with my father : let vs make him drinke wine this night also , and goe thou and lie with him , that we may preserue seede of our father . * So they made their father drinke wine that night also , and the yonger arose , &amp ; lay with him , but he perceiued not , when she lay downe , neither when she rose vp . * Thus were (note :)Thus God permitted him to fall most horribly in the solitary mountains , whom the wickedness of Sodom could not overcome .(:note ) both the daughters of Lot with child by their father . * And the firstborn bare a son , and called his name Moab : the same [is ] the father of the (note :)Who as they were born in most horrible incest , so were they and their posterity vile and wicked .(:note ) Moabites unto this day . * And the younger , she also bare a son , and called his name (note :)That is , son of my people : signifying that they rejoiced in their sin , rather than repenting of it .(:note ) Benammi : the same [is ] the father of the children of Ammon unto this day .

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