Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Genesis 19:1-29

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Genesis 19:1-29

1 Abraham’s nephew Lot

and his family had
chosen to live on a
fertile plain in a city
called Sodom. The
people there were very
wicked as were people
living in other cities
nearby. Two of the
strangers that had
visited Abraham were
angels sent by God to
destroy these wicked
cities.

2 The two angels, looking

like men, made their
way to the city of Sodom
where Lot lived with his
wife and two daughters.
Lot was sitting by the
city gate.

3 Lot bowed down when

he saw the two
strangers and invited
them to stay at his
house. ‘No, we will
spend the night in the
square,’ they replied.
But Lot insisted they
stay at his house.
4 Lot prepared bread
made without yeast and
gave them a meal.

5 Outside, news of the two

strangers’ arrival had
spread through the city
and all the men, young
and old, surrounded
Lot’s house. The mob
demanded the two men
be handed over to them.

6 Lot went out to the mob

locking the door behind
him. ‘No,’ he shouted,
‘Don’t do this wicked
thing. They are my
guests.’ ‘Lot, you are a
foreigner living in our
city and now you want
to play the judge,’ the
angry men shouted.
‘We’ll treat you worse
than we were going to
treat them.’

7 The men surged forward

to break the door down.
The two angels reached
out and pulled Lot back
inside and closed the
door. Then they struck
the men outside with
blindness so they could
not find the door.

8 ‘Do you have any

relatives in this city?’
the angels asked Lot.
‘The wickedness in this
place is so great the
Lord God is going to
destroy it.’
9 Lot went to find two
local men who were
pledged to marry his
daughters. ‘Hurry and
get out,’ he warned
them, ‘the Lord is about
to destroy this city.’ His
future sons-in-law
thought he was joking
and would not leave.

10 As dawn approached,
the two angels urged
Lot, his wife and
daughters to get out of
the city. ‘Hurry,’ they
demanded, ‘Or you will
be swept away when the
city is punished.’ When
they hesitated the
angels grabbed their
hands and led them out.

11 ‘Flee for you lives,’ one

of the angels ordered.
‘Don’t look back. Head
for the mountains and
don’t stop anywhere on
the plain.’

12 ‘You have shown great

mercy in sparing my
life,’ Lot told them. ‘But I
can’t flee to the
mountains in time and I
will die. Look, there is a
small town near enough
for me to run to. Let me
flee there to shelter.’
‘Very well, the angels
replied. ‘That town will
be spared, but get there
quickly.’

13 As Lot reached the town,

the Lord sent burning
sulphur on the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
The entire plain was
engulfed with fire,
volcanic fumes, salt and
ash.
14 Lot’s wife however
ignored the warning not
to look back. She was
covered with burning
sulphur, ash, salt and
fumes. Her dead body
looked like a pillar of
salt.

15 The Lord spared the

lives of Lot and his two
daughters who sheltered
in the town of Zoar.

16 Early the next morning

Abraham looked down
over Sodom and
Gomorrah. He saw
dense smoke, like the
smoke from a furnace,
rising all over the plain.
God had destroyed the
wicked people that lived
there but spared his
nephew Lot.

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