Explanation: Genesis 19 records the destruction of Sodom and the events surrounding it. The chapter opens with two angels coming to Sodom. Lot greets them at the gate of the city, where he quite possibly sits as one of the elders/judges of Sodom (see v. 9, where there is an indirect reference to Lot being a judge). The visitors tell Lot that they intend to stay in the street all night. But Lot persuades them, with strong urgings, to stay with him in his house (1-3).
     But that night, the men of Sodom gather, young and old, from all over the city, and they try to extract Lot's visitors from his house to abuse them. Lot tries to dissuade them, even offering them his daughters. The crowd presses in upon Lot, but the visitors take Lot back into the house and smite the men of the city with blindness. Even so, the men of the city persist in trying to find the door (4-11).
     The angels then told Lot and his family to flee the destruction which they were about to bring on the city. But his son(s)-in-law refused to listen. In verse 8, Lot said that his daughters had not yet known a man, so the "son(s)-in-law" may be engaged to his daughters, having not yet consummated the marriage (12-14).
     In the morning, the angels removed Lot, his wife, and his two daughters from Sodom, sending them to a nearby city, Zoar (15-22).
     When Lot arrived in Zoar, the LORD rained down brimstone and fire upon Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding plain. And Lot's wife, who looked back intently, perhaps lingering behind, was turned into a pillar of salt (23-26).
     That same morning, Abraham saw the smoke of the destruction (27-28). But the LORD delivered, Lot in response to Abraham's intercession (29).
     Lot was so frightened by the destruction that he went into the mountain, as the angels had wanted him to do; and he and his daughters lived in a cave (30). Later, Lot's daughters got Lot drunk on successive nights, and lay with him, without Lot being aware. As a result of the incest of Lot's daughters, they had sons whom they named Moab, the father of the Moabites, and Benammi, the father of the Ammonites (31-38).
     [ Sermons: J Ligon Duncan III. William Still. Various. ]
     [ Illustration: Today's images illustrate the main elements of today's chapter. Image 1 symbolizes the gates of Sodom. Gates were centers for commerce, fellowship, and judgment. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom, perhaps doing all three of these activities, especially, it would seem from verse 9, he served as a judge. Image 2. shows Lot and his family escaping from Sodom. Image 3 shows Lot in a drunken stupor with his incestuous daughters. ]

     ³⁴ And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. ³⁵ And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. ³⁶ Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. ³⁷ And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. ³⁸ And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

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