Genesis 19:17

New International Version

As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.

Genesis 18:22

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

Genesis 19:18

But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please!

Genesis 19:22

But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)

Genesis 19:26

But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:30

Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.

1 Kings 1:12

Now then, let me advise you how you can save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

1 Kings 19:3

Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,

Psalm 121:1

I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush in the desert.

Numbers 16:26

He warned the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, 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 clothes.

Luke 9:62

Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

1 Samuel 19:11

Saul sent men to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t run for your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be killed.”