17 So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that [a]he said, (A)“Escape for your life! (B)Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape (C)to the mountains, lest you be [b]destroyed.”

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  1. Genesis 19:17 LXX, Syr., Vg. they
  2. Genesis 19:17 Lit. swept away

17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives!(A) Don’t look back,(B) and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!(C) Flee to the mountains(D) or you will be swept away!”

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16 “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.

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16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let no one on the housetop(A) go down to take anything out of the house. 18 Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.

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13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have [a]apprehended; but one thing I do, (A)forgetting those things which are behind and (B)reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 (C)I press toward the goal for the prize of (D)the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

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  1. Philippians 3:13 laid hold of it

13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind(A) and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on(B) toward the goal to win the prize(C) for which God has called(D) me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

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62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is (A)fit for the kingdom of God.”

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62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

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26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became (A)a pillar of salt.

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26 But Lot’s wife looked back,(A) and she became a pillar of salt.(B)

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22 Hurry, escape there. For (A)I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”

Therefore (B)the name of the city was called [a]Zoar.

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  1. Genesis 19:22 Lit. Little or Insignificant

22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[a](A))

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  1. Genesis 19:22 Zoar means small.

31 “In that day, he (A)who is on the housetop, and his [a]goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. 32 (B)Remember Lot’s wife.

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  1. Luke 17:31 possessions

31 On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.(A) 32 Remember Lot’s wife!(B)

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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, (A)“Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from (B)the wrath to come?

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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers!(A) Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(B)

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“Flee, save your lives!
And be like [a]the (A)juniper in the wilderness.

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  1. Jeremiah 48:6 Or Aroer, a city of Moab

Flee!(A) Run for your lives;
    become like a bush[a] in the desert.(B)

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  1. Jeremiah 48:6 Or like Aroer

And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

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Elijah was afraid[a] and ran(A) for his life.(B) When he came to Beersheba(C) in Judah, he left his servant there,

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  1. 1 Kings 19:3 Or Elijah saw

10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all (A)the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord (B)destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) (C)like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward (D)Zoar.

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10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain(A) of the Jordan toward Zoar(B) was well watered, like the garden of the Lord,(C) like the land of Egypt.(D) (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom(E) and Gomorrah.)(F)

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God the Help of Those Who Seek Him

A Song of Ascents.

121 I (A)will lift up my eyes to the hills—
From whence comes my help?

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Psalm 121

A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
    where does my help come from?

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14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, (A)who had married his daughters, and said, (B)“Get up, get out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city!” (C)But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.

15 When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, (D)“Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”

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14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[a] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!(A)” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.(B)

15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away(C) when the city is punished.(D)

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  1. Genesis 19:14 Or were married to