Genesis 19:22
Make haste, escape to it, for I can do nothing until you arrive there.” Therefore the village was called Zoar.
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23The sun had risen when Lot came to Zoar.
Cross References
Genesis 13:10Then Lot looked about and saw that all the plain of the Jordan, as far as Zoar, was well watered everywhere, like a garden of the Lord. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 32:25When he saw that he did not win against Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip, and the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated, as he wrestled with him.
Psalms 91:1You whose home is the shelter of God Most High, whose abode is the shadow of God Almighty,
Mark 6:5And he could not work any miracle there, beyond placing his hands on a few infirm persons, and curing them;
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 →