Lot

Accompanies Terah from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran

• Genesis 11:31

  And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

Migrates with Abraham to the land of Canaan

• Genesis 12:4

  So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Accompanies Abraham to Egypt

Returns with him to Beth-el

• Genesis 13:1–3

  And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;

Rich in flocks, and herds, and servants

Separates from Abraham, and locates in Sodom

• Genesis 13:5–14

  And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. …

Taken captive by Chedorlaomer; rescued by Abraham

• Genesis 14:1–16

  And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. …

Providentially saved from destruction in Sodom

• Luke 17:28

  Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

• Luke 17:29

  But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

Genesis 19

Disobediently protests against going to the mountains, and chooses Zoar

• Genesis 19:17–22

  And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: …

His wife disobediently yearns after Sodom, and becomes a pillar of salt

• Genesis 19:26

  But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

• Luke 17:32

  Remember Lot's wife.

Commits incest with his daughters

• Genesis 19:30–38

  And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. …

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