Genesis 19:17
As soon as they were outside, one of the men said, “Run for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the valley! Run to the mountains otherwise you'll be destroyed!”
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18“Please sir, not that!” Lot replied.
Cross References
Genesis 18:22The two men turned and went towards Sodom, but the Lord stayed there with Abraham.
Genesis 19:22But hurry up and run there quickly, because I can't do anything until you get there.” (This is why the town was called Zoar.)
1 Samuel 19:11Saul sent some messengers to David's house to keep watch and kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, warned him, “If you don't get away tonight, tomorrow you'll be killed.”
1 Kings 19:3Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he arrived in Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there
Jeremiah 48:6Run away! Save yourselves! Be like a scrawny tamarisk tree in the desert!
Matthew 24:16then the people living in Judea should run away 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 →