One Year Pray for America Bible - Flipbook - Page 40
January 8
14 So
Lot rushed out to tell his
daughters’ fiancés, “Quick, get out of
the city! The Lord is about to destroy
it.” But the young men thought he was
only joking.
15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they
said to Lot. “Take your wife and your
two daughters who are here. Get out
right now, or you will be swept away
in the destruction of the city!”
16 When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of
his wife and two daughters and rushed
them to safety outside the city, for the
Lord was merciful. 17 When they were
safely out of the city, one of the angels
ordered, “Run for your lives! And don’t
look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you
will be swept away!”
18 “Oh no, my lord!” Lot begged.
19 “You have been so gracious to me
and saved my life, and you have shown
such great kindness. But I cannot go to
the mountains. Disaster would catch
up to me there, and I would soon die.
20 See, there is a small village nearby.
Please let me go there instead; don’t
you see how small it is? Then my life
will be saved.”
21 “All right,” the angel said, “I will
grant your request. I will not destroy
the little village. 22 But hurry! Escape
to it, for I can do nothing until you
arrive there.” (This explains why that
village was known as Zoar, which
means “little place.”)
23 Lot reached the village just as the
sun was rising over the horizon. 24 Then
the Lord rained down fire and burning
sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Go
morrah. 25 He utterly destroyed them,
along with the other cities and villages
of the plain, wiping out all the people
and every bit of vegetation. 26 But Lot’s
wife looked back as she was following
behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham got up early that morning and hurried out to the place where
he had stood in the Lord’s presence.
28 He looked out across the plain toward
Sodom and Gomorrah and watched as
30
columns of smoke rose from the cities
like smoke from a furnace.
29 But God had listened to Abraham’s
request and kept Lot safe, removing
him from the disaster that engulfed the
cities on the plain.
30 Afterward Lot left Zoar because he
was afraid of the people there, and he
went to live in a cave in the mountains
with his two daughters. 31 One day
the older daughter said to her sister,
“There are no men left anywhere in
this entire area, so we can’t get married like everyone else. And our father
will soon be too old to have children.
32 Come, let’s get him drunk with wine,
and then we will have sex with him.
That way we will preserve our family
line through our father.”
33 So that night they got him drunk
with wine, and the older daughter
went in and had intercourse with her
father. He was unaware of her lying
down or getting up again.
34 The next morning the older
daughter said to her younger sister,
“I had sex with our father last night.
Let’s get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with
him. That way we will preserve our
family line through our father.” 35 So
that night they got him drunk with
wine again, and the younger daughter
went in and had intercourse with him.
As before, he was unaware of her lying
down or getting up again.
36 As a result, both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their own father. 37 When the older daughter gave
birth to a son, she named him Moab.*
He became the ancestor of the nation
now known as the Moabites. 38 When
the younger daughter gave birth to a
son, she named him B
en-ammi.* He
became the ancestor of the nation
now known as the Ammonites.
19:10 Hebrew men; also in 19:12, 16. 19:37 Moab
sounds like a Hebrew term that means “from father.”
19:38 Ben-ammi means “son of my kinsman.”
MATTHEW 6:25–7:14
“That is why I tell you not to worry
about every
day life—whether you
have enough food and drink, or
enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more
