Genesis 19:17

Modern English Version

When they had brought them out, one of them said to them, “Escape for your lives! Do not look behind you or stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be destroyed.”

Cross References

Luke 9:62

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back at things is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Genesis 19:26

But his wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:22

Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who has warned you to escape from the wrath to come?

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee, save your lives, and be like the juniper in the wilderness.

1 Kings 19:3

When he saw that she was serious, he arose and ran for his life to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

Genesis 13:10

Lot lifted up his eyes, and looked at all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Psalm 121:1

I will lift up my eyes to the hills; from whence comes my help?

1 Samuel 19:11

Saul also sent messengers to the house of David, to watch him and to slay him in the morning. But Michal, wife of David, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead.”

Genesis 18:22

The men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord.

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell in them, and the rest fled to the hill country.

Genesis 19:18

Then Lot said to them, “Please, no, my lords!

Genesis 19:30

Then Lot left Zoar, and lived in the mountains, along with his two daughters who were with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.

Numbers 16:26

He spoke to the assembly, saying, “Depart now from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away for all their sins.”

1 Kings 1:12

Now please come and let me give you some advice, so that you may save your own life as well as that of your son Solomon.

Luke 12:23

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.