Genesis 19:17

New Century Version

After they brought them out of the city, one of the men said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Run to the mountains, or you will be destroyed.”

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked all around and saw the whole Jordan Valley and that there was much water there. It was like the Lord’s garden, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 14:10

There were many tar pits in the Valley of Siddim. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and their armies ran away, some of the soldiers fell into the tar pits, but the others ran away to the mountains.

Genesis 18:22

So the men turned and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood there before the Lord.

Genesis 19:18

But Lot said to one of them, “Sir, please don’t force me to go so far!

Genesis 19:22

But run there fast, because I cannot destroy Sodom until you are safely in that town.” (That town is named Zoar, because it is little.)

Genesis 19:26

At that point Lot’s wife looked back. When she did, she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:30

Lot was afraid to continue living in Zoar, so he and his two daughters went to live in the mountains in a cave.

1 Kings 1:12

I strongly advise you to save yourself and your sons.

1 Kings 19:3

When Elijah heard this, he was afraid and ran for his life, taking his servant with him. When they came to Beersheba in Judah, Elijah left his servant there.

Psalm 121:1

I look up to the hills, but where does my help come from?

Jeremiah 48:6

Run! Run for your lives! Go like a bush being blown through the desert.

Numbers 16:26

Moses warned the people, “Move away from the tents of these evil men! Don’t touch anything of theirs, or you will be destroyed because of their sins.”

Matthew 3:7

Many of the Pharisees and Sadducees came to the place where John was baptizing people. When John saw them, he said, “You are snakes! Who warned you to run away from God’s coming punishment?

Luke 12:23

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

Luke 9:62

Jesus said, “Anyone who begins to plow a field but keeps looking back is of no use in the kingdom of God.”

Hebrews 2:3

So surely we also will be punished if we ignore this great salvation. The Lord himself first told about this salvation, and those who heard him testified it was true.

1 Samuel 19:11

Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, saying, “Tonight you must run for your life. If you don’t, you will be dead in the morning.”