Site HarperCollins Dictionary. Places Home Lot and His Daughters. Add this:. Ask a Scholar. Related Articles 2 Abraham Abraham, the first patriarch in the book of Genesis, is a figure of memory, legend, and faith. HarperCollins Dictionary Ammonites. Moab, Moabites. Gen The Shameful Origin of Moab and Ammon 30Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; so he li It was that he wrongly placed a higher priority on these guests.
In his house were powerful angels, messengers from God. These angels could have and did protect his family from any dangers. But once again, Lot did not pray and seek help from God. He looked at the situation with his own tainted perspective and came to a decision based on his own rationale. And clearly a lack of respect for women fed into this incorrect rationale. Application : It is never necessary to sin. The situation appeared desperate, but Lot failed to seek the way out.
He looked at the situation as a binary choice rather than seeking another option, help from God. In 1 Corinthians God promises that He always provides a way of escape for temptation. There was no choice. You did not need to commit one sin in order to avoid a supposed greater sin. Instead of focusing on the problem from your own perspective, step back, pray, and throw yourself upon the mercy of God.
Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
The angels warned Lot that he and his family needed to quickly leave that city or they would perish in along with everyone else as God poured out his punishment. His mistake could have been fatal for him and his family. Now the punishment is on his head.
It is a reminder that God is patient and full of grace. He gives us so many opportunities to repent and time and again He delays punishment. The text clearly describes his daughters as initiating this abominable act.
He should have protected them and trained them better growing up. Second, Lot allowed himself to become drunk. Drinking too much was his own choice. Nobody can force someone else to get drunk. When a person allows himself to get drunk, he cannot abdicate responsibility for all of the poor choices he makes while drunk.
And here is a classic case why God commands His people to never get drunk Ephesians When a person is drunk his ability to control himself is greatly diminished and he opens himself up to many temptations. Third, even while drunk Lot likely had some sense of what was going on. The idea should have horrified him. But in his weakened state, he gave in to the temptation.
Fourth, Lot did not just commit this sin once, but twice. Surely he must have woken up the next day after the first time with a horrible sense of guilt and shame. And yet he allowed the same thing to happen again. It appears there was some part of him that was a willing participant in this scheme. Genesis — The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city.
When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. Here we see something positive from Lot, finally! He shows hospitality to these strangers.
Having lived in Sodom for some time, Lot knew the dangers these men faced spending a night out in the open. And Lot wanted to protect them from any harm. After they first reject his invitation, he continues insisting. Lot could have given up, but his conscience demanded that he do everything in his power to protect them.
Thus we see that Lot did not sell out to the culture. And neither did he turn a blind eye or empower it. Instead we see in these verses that in his own way he is fighting against it. The problem is that it is a losing battle for him. It is so hard for one person to stand against a tidal wave of peer pressure. Activity : Assign one person in your Bible study group to stand on a chair.
And another person is on the ground. The person on the chair must try to lift the person from the ground to the chair and the person on the ground must try to pull the one on the chair to the ground. What do you think will happen? The one on the ground has a big advantage, gravity. This is like the struggle between believers and unbelievers. Heeded the warning and left Sodom — Lot finally did leave the city.
He had to be practically dragged out, but he did go with the angels Genesis It is probably true that not a single other person in all of Sodom would have heeded the warning and left. But Lot did. He believed the angels. The culture of the city he lived in influenced him.
When the angels were staying with him, he offered up his daughters to be sexually assaulted by the men in the city. Later he committed drunken incest with them. How can such a man be called righteous? God considered Lot and his family righteous, so he saved them. On the verge of Sodom's destruction , two angels led Lot, his wife and two daughters away.
Lot's wife turned and looked back, whether from curiosity or longing, we don't know. Immediately she turned into a pillar of salt. Panicked because they were living in a wilderness cave where there were no men, Lot's two daughters got him drunk and committed incest with him.
Perhaps if Lot had raised his daughters more strictly in God's ways, they would not have gone through with such a desperate plan. Even so, God made good come out of it. The older daughter's son was named Moab. God gave Moab a section of land in Canaan. One of his descendants was named Ruth. Ruth, in turn, is named as one of the ancestors of the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
Lot made his flocks grow to the point where he and Abraham had to part ways because there was not enough grazing land for both of them. He learned much about the one true God from his uncle, Abraham.
Lot was loyal to his uncle, Abraham. He was a diligent worker and overseer. Lot could have been a great man , but he let himself get distracted. Following God and living up to his potential for us requires constant effort. Like Lot, we are surrounded by a corrupt, sinful society. Lot went to his sons-in-law and told them to leave the city, because God was going to destroy it. The sons-in-law laughed and thought that Lot was joking. Early next morning, the angels urged Lot to take his wife and his two daughters and flee the city.
When he delayed needlessly, the angels seized his hand, and the hands of his wife and daughters, and brought them out of the city. They told Lot and his family to escape to the hills, and warned them not to look back. Lot told them that he would not be able to get that far and to allow them to find refuge in a small nearby town.
The angels agreed and told him that the little town, called Zoar, would not be destroyed. The sun was rising when Lot entered Zoar, and God rained sulfurous fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, destroying both cities and annihilating their inhabitants.
Lot, afraid of staying in Zoar, left the town with his two daughters and went to the hills, where they lived in a cave. The two daughters believed that no man had been left alive, but they were anxious to have children. They made their father drunk and laid with him.
The eldest one gave birth to a son, whom she called Moab; he was the ancestor of the Moabites. The youngest one also had a son, and called him Ben-ammi, the ancestor of the Ammonites.
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