Genesis 19:15

When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Get going, take your wife and your two daughters that are here, so you are not swept away in the punishment of the city.”

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, the men who had promised to marry his daughters, and said, “Quick, get out of this place, for Yahweh is about to destroy the city.” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.

16But he lingered. So the men grabbed his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, because Yahweh was merciful to him. They brought them out, and set them outside the city.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:22Hurry! Escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the city was called Zoar.

Proverbs 6:4Give your eyes no sleep 1 and your eyelids no slumber. 1

2 Corinthians 6:2For he says, 1 “In a favorable time I paid attention to you, 1 and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Look, now is the favorable time. Look, now is the day of salvation.

Revelation 18:4Then I heard another voice from heaven say, 2 “Come out from her, my people, 3 so that you will not share in her sins, 2 and so that you will not receive any of her plagues. 1

Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:13-15

Rescue of Lot out of Sodom. ( b. c. 1898.) 12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: 13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord ; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. 14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city.… Read the whole commentary →

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