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Genesis 19:22

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

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In The King James Version

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

In Context

21He said to him, “Alright, I am granting this request also, that I will not destroy the city which you have mentioned.

23The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot reached Zoar.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:10So Lot looked around, and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere all the way to Zoar, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt. This was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Genesis 32:25When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob's hip. Jacob's hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

Deuteronomy 9:14Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'

Psalms 91:1He who lives in the shelter of the Most High 1 will stay in the shadow of the Almighty. 1

Isaiah 65:8This is what Yahweh says, “As when juice is found in a cluster of grapes, 1 when one says, 'Do not ruin it, for there is good in it,' 1 this is what I will do for my servants' sake: I will not ruin them all. 1

Mark 6:5He was unable to do any mighty work, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal 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 →

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