Genesis 19:17

New English Translation

When they had brought them outside, they said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.

Genesis 18:22

The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the Lord.

Genesis 19:18

But Lot said to them, “No, please, Lord!

Genesis 19:22

Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)

Genesis 19:26

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

Genesis 19:30

Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

1 Kings 1:12

Now let me give you some advice as to how you can save your life and your son Solomon’s life.

1 Kings 19:3

Elijah was afraid, so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,

Psalm 121:1

I look up toward the hills. From where does my help come?

Jeremiah 48:6

They will hear, ‘Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!’

Numbers 16:26

And he said to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because of all their sins.”

Matthew 3:7

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

Luke 12:23

For there is more to life than food, and more to the body than clothing.

Luke 9:62

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

Hebrews 2:3

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

1 Samuel 19:11

Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”