THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM

 

 

 

 

 

NOW God had said to Abram, “Get thee out of they country and from thy kindred, unto a land that I will shew thee.”

 

So Abram went as God told him.  And he took Sarai his wife, and all that he had.  And Lot went with him.  And they came into the land of Canaan.

 

God bless Abram and Lot in Canaan, as He had said.  But Lot left Abram and went and pitched his tent near Sodom, the wicked city.

 

One day God sent two angels to Lot; and they said to him, Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters, and escape for your lives.  Look not behind you.  For God will destroy Sodom, the wicked city, with fire.

 

And while Lot lingered the angels took hold of him, and hastened him.  So Lot escaped to Zoar.

 

Then God rained brimstone and fire out of heaven on the cities of the plain.

 

But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.                                    

 

                                                                                    Gen. 19