Genesis 13:12
Abram went to live in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled down among the towns in the valley, setting up his tents near Sodom.
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11So Lot chose the whole Jordan valley and went east, and the two separated from each other.
13(The people of Sodom were very wicked, committing terrible sins that offended the Lord.)
Cross References
Genesis 19:1The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening. Lot happened to be sitting at the entrance to Sodom, and when he saw them he stood up to meet them, and bowed low with his face to the ground.
Genesis 19:29When God destroyed the towns of the valley he didn't forget the promise he made Abraham, and he saved Lot from the destruction of the towns where Lot was living.
1 Corinthians 15:33Don't be fooled: “Bad company ruins good character.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:11-14
Lot's Removal to Sodom. ( b. c. 1917.) 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13… Read the whole commentary →