Genesis 19:17
And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying : Save thy life : look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18And Lot said to them: I beseech thee my Lord,
Cross References
Genesis 18:22And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.
Genesis 19:22Make haste and be saved there, because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.
1 Samuel 19:11Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol David's wife had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die,
1 Kings 19:3Then Elias was afraid, and rising up he went whithersoever he had a mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there,
Jeremiah 48:6Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.
Matthew 24:16Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains:
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:16-24
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… Read the whole commentary →