Genesis 19:17 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 19:17

As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

BSB

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ASV

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

KJV

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

When they had brought them forth, etc. - Every word here is emphatic, Escape for thy Life; thou art in the most imminent danger of perishing; thy life and thy soul are both at stake. Look not behind thee - thou hast but barely time enough to escape from the judgment that is now descending; no lingering, or thou art lost! one look back may prove fatal to thee, and God commands thee to avoid it. Neither stay thou in all the plain, because God will destroy that as well as the city.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Such as these are the commands given to those who through grace are delivered out of a sinful state. [1.] Return not to sin and Satan, for that is looking back to Sodom. [2.] Rest not in self and the world, for that is staying in the plain. And, [3.] Reach towards Christ and heaven, for that is escaping to the mountain, short of which we must not take up.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2400: “Number 2400—or, "Escape for Your Life!"” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1895)

THE Lord Himself said to Lot, "Escape for your life," although the command was sent by one of His chosen messengers. God has messengers, nowadays, and He still sends by them short, sharp, urgent, stimulating messages like this, "Escape for your life." This message was sent in love. God loved Lot and, therefore, He would save him from the impending doom of Sodom. I doubt not that this message of love was spoken by the messenger in very solemn tones.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִי֩	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
כְהוֹצִיאָ֨ם	khe.ho.tzi.'Am	when brought out they	H3318 →
אֹתָ֜ם	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
הַח֗וּצָה	ha.Chu.tzah	the outside towards	H2351 →
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
הִמָּלֵ֣ט	hi.ma.Let	escape	H4422 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
נַפְשֶׁ֔ךָ	naf.She.kha	life your	H5315 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תַּבִּ֣יט	ta.Bit	you look	H5027 →
אַחֲרֶ֔יךָ	'a.cha.Rei.kha	behind you	H310 →
וְאַֽל־	ve.'al-	and may not	H408 →
תַּעֲמֹ֖ד	ta.'a.Mod	you stop	H5975 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	in all	H3605 →
הַכִּכָּ֑ר	ha.ki.Kar	the valley	H3603 →
הָהָ֥רָה	ha.Ha.rah	the hill country towards	H2022 →
הִמָּלֵ֖ט	hi.ma.Let	escape	H4422 →
פֶּן־	pen-	lest	H6435 →
תִּסָּפֶֽה׃	ti.sa.Peh	you should be swept away	H5595 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 9:62
Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
leads to
- Hebrews 10:38
  But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 17:31–32
  On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Philippians 3:13
  Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
- 2 Peter 2:20–22
  If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse…
- James 1:6–8
  But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
Through
Genesis 19:26
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
leads to
- Proverbs 14:14
  The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
Through
Genesis 19:22
Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
leads to
- Genesis 13:10
  And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…
- Genesis 14:2
  went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

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Lot Flees as Sodom and Gomorrah Burn — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Genesis

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Genesis