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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Footnotes

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

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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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

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

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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

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

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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“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

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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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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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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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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11 (A)Saul also sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

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22 Then the men turned away from there (A)and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.

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(A)how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, (B)which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was (C)confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

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