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GENESIS CHAPTER 19
Two angels come to Sodom, Gen_19:1. Lot invites them in; they at first refuse, Gen_19:2. They enter; he entertains them, and they eat, Gen_19:3. The men of Sodom demand to know them, Gen_19:4,5. Lot dissuades them, Gen_19:6,7; offers his daughters; urges reason, Gen_19:8. They are obstinate; threaten, and press to break the door, Gen_19:9. The angels pull Lot in, and shut to the door, Gen_19:10; and smite the men with blindness, Gen_19:11. Advise Lot to depart with his kindred, Gen_19:12. The reason, Gen_19:13. Lot speaks to his sons-in-law; they deride him, Gen_19:14. The angels lay hold on Lot, his wife, and two daughters, and carry them out, Gen_19:16; command them not to look back, Gen_19:17. Lot requests to stay in Zoar; it is granted, with a command to hasten, because till they are gone the Lord can do nothing, Gen_19:18-23. God rains brimstone and fire upon Sodom, Gen_19:24,25. Lot’s wife looking back becomes a pillar of salt, Gen_19:26. Abraham looks towards Sodom, Gen_19:27,28. God kind to Lot for Abraham’s sake, Gen_19:29. Lot and his two daughters remove to the mountain, Gen_19:30. Lot’s daughters contrive for an issue, Gen_19:31,32. They make their father drunk, lie with him, Gen_19:33-35; and are with child, Gen_19:36. Moab and Ben-ammi, the two sons, born thereby, Gen_19:37,38.
And there came two angels, even those two which departed from Abraham, Gen_18:22, and now were come to Lot, the third yet staying and communing with Abraham. Angels they truly were, though they be called men, Gen_18:1-33.
At even of the same day on which they departed from Abraham.
In the gate of Sodom, where he sat either to observe the administration or corruption of justice there; for the seats of judicature were in the gates: or rather to wait for strangers, to whom he might exercise kindness and hospitality.