Genesis 19:17

New American Bible - revised edition

As soon as they had brought them outside, they said: “Flee for your life! Do not look back or stop anywhere on the Plain. Flee to the hills at once, or you will be swept away.”

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked about and saw how abundantly watered the whole Jordan Plain was as far as Zoar, like the Lord’s own garden, or like Egypt. This was before the Lord had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits; and as the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah fled, they fell into these, while the rest fled to the mountains.

Genesis 18:22

As the men turned and walked on toward Sodom, Abraham remained standing before the Lord.

Genesis 19:18

“Oh, no, my lords!” Lot replied to them.

Genesis 19:22

Hurry, escape there! I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” That is why the town is called Zoar.

Genesis 19:26

But Lot’s wife looked back, and she was turned into a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:30

Since Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, he and his two daughters went up from Zoar and settled in the hill country, where he lived with his two daughters in a cave.

1 Kings 1:12

Come now, let me advise you so that you may save your life and the life of your son Solomon.

1 Kings 19:3

Elijah was afraid and fled for his life, going to Beer-sheba of Judah. He left his servant there

Psalm 121:1

A song of ascents. I raise my eyes toward the mountains. From whence shall come my help?

Jeremiah 48:6

“Flee, save your lives! Be like a wild donkey in the wilderness!”

Numbers 16:26

Then he spoke to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked men and do not touch anything that is theirs: otherwise you too will be swept away because of all their sins.”

Matthew 3:7

When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Luke 12:23

For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

Luke 9:62

[To him] Jesus said, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? Announced originally through the Lord, it was confirmed for us by those who had heard.

1 Samuel 19:11

The same night, Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it, planning to kill him in the morning. David’s wife Michal informed him, “Unless you run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”