Genesis 19:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you arrive there.” Therefore the city was called Zoar.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Make haste and take refuge there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar [little].

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Common English Bible

²² Hurry! Escape to it! I can’t do anything until you get there.” That is why the name of the city is Zoar.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Hurry and be saved there. For I cannot do anything until you enter there." For this reason, the name of that city is called Zoar.

Genesis 19:22 Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked about him and saw that the plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Genesis 14:2

these kings made war with King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, that is, Zoar.

Deuteronomy 9:14

Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than they.’

Exodus 32:10

Now let me alone so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, and of you I will make a great nation.”

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began—

2 Timothy 2:13

if we are faithless, he remains faithful— he cannot deny himself.

Mark 6:5

And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them.

Jeremiah 48:34

From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For even the waters of Nimrim have become desolate.

Isaiah 65:8

Thus says the Lord: As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say, “Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,” so I will do for my servants’ sake and not destroy them all.

Isaiah 15:5

My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;

Genesis 19:21

He said to him, “Very well, I grant you this favor too and will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Genesis 19:23

The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

Deuteronomy 34:3

the Negeb, and the Plain—that is, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees—as far as Zoar.