Genesis 19:17

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When they had brought them outside, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed.”

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked about him, and saw that the plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; 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 kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.

Genesis 18:22

So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, while Abraham remained standing before the Lord.

Genesis 19:18

And Lot said to them, “Oh, no, my lords;

Genesis 19:22

Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you arrive there.” Therefore the city was called Zoar.

Genesis 19:26

But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:30

Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; so he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

1 Kings 1:12

Now therefore come, let me give you advice, so that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

1 Kings 19:3

Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there.

Psalm 121:1

I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come?

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee! Save yourselves! Be like a wild ass in the desert!

Numbers 16:26

He said to the congregation, “Turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, or you will be swept away for all their sins.”

Matthew 3:7

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

Luke 12:23

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

Luke 9:62

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

Hebrews 2:3

how can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared at first through the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him,

1 Samuel 19:11

Saul sent messengers to David's house to keep watch over him, planning to kill him in the morning. David's wife Michal told him, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”