Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain of the Jordan as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 19:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Hurry up! Run to it, for I cannot do anything until you get there.’ Therefore the name of the city is Zoar. , Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Make haste and take refuge there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar [little]. American Standard Version (1901) Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. Common English Bible Hurry! Escape to it! I can’t do anything until you get there.” That is why the name of the city is Zoar. Catholic Public Domain Version Hurry and be saved there. For I cannot do anything until you enter there." For this reason, the name of that city is called Zoar. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Make haste and be saved there, because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor. |
Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain of the Jordan as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
waged war against King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, and King Shemeber of Zeboiim, as well as the king of Bela (that is, Zoar ).
And he said to him, ‘All right, I’ll grant your request about this matter too and will not demolish the town you mentioned.
Now leave me alone, so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.’
My heart cries out over Moab, whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah; they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping; they raise a cry of destruction on the road to Horonaim.
The Lord says this: ‘As the new wine is found in a bunch of grapes, and one says, “Don’t destroy it, for there’s some good in it,” so I will act because of my servants and not destroy them all.
‘There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they make their voices heard as far as Jahaz #– #from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah #– #because even the Waters of Nimrim have become desolate.
He was not able to do a miracle there, except that he laid his hands on a few ill people and healed them.
the Negev, and the plain in the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.
Leave me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”
if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.
in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.