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Genesis 19 Bible study: Out of Sodom
Lot took in two angels, and the men of Sodom surrounded his house. When he lingered, the angels took him by the hand, "the LORD being merciful to him", and the Bible's first use of the word for loving kindness is Lot's, speaking of that rescue. The LORD overthrew the cities, Lot's wife looked back, and Lot was sent out because God remembered Abraham.
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“When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.”
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“The Hebrew word for ‘loving kindness’ first appears in the Bible on Lot's lips.”
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What's really going on
Two guests at the gate
"The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom" (19:1). Like Abraham in chapter 18, Lot bows to the ground, invites them to wash their feet and gives them a meal (18:2-8; 19:1-3). When they say they will stay in the street, "He urged them greatly, and they came in with him" (19:2-3).
Where it leads to Jesus
As in the days of Lot
Genesis 19:24leads toLuke 17:28-30
Jesus compares the day he is revealed to the day Sodom fell: "in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all. It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed." Peter uses the same event: "the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation".
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- The men of the city
- He lingered
- God remembered Abraham
- Remember Lot's wife
- From Moab to David
- Sodom through the rest of the Bible
- 9 questions as you read
- 7 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
חֶסֶדchesedsay KHE-sed
Brown-Driver-Briggs gives "goodness, kindness", and of God, "kindness, lovingkindness in condescending to the needs of his creatures". Its first appearance in the Bible is here, in Lot's words: "you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life" (19:19). It appears 11 times in Genesis. When the LORD proclaims his name to Moses, he is "abundant in loving kindness and truth" (Exodus 34:6), and the psalm repeats, "his loving kindness endures forever" (Psalm 136:1).
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Genesis 19 Bible study questions
- 1Lot lingered even while the angels were urging him to go. What makes it hard to leave something behind when God calls you out of it?
- 2Abraham had pleaded with the LORD over Sodom (18:23-32). Then "God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out" (19:29). Who do you bring before God, and what does this chapter give you to hope for them?
- 3Jesus said, "Remember Lot's wife!" Reading Luke 17:31-33, what do you think he wanted his hearers to remember?
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