Lot

Lot was the son of Abraham’s brother Haran who had died while the family still lived in Ur according to Genesis 11 v 27,28. It was a family of close and complicated relationships as Abraham was married to his own half-sister. And his brother Nahor was not only his uncle he became Lot’s father –in –law when he married Milcah who may also have been the sister of Sarah. If she is identified with Iscah as in Jewish Talmudic stories (Genesis 11 v 29).


Lot son to Haran and descendant of Noah through Shem, listed in the bible

Gen 11:27  Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 

Lot goes with grandfather & uncle into the land of Canaan

Gen 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. 

Gen 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. 

Gen 12:5  And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 

Lot and Abraham seperate

(Gen 13:7)  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.

(Gen 13:8)  And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

(Gen 13:9)  Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

(Gen 13:10)  And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

(Gen 13:11)  Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Lot dwelled in city of Sodom where he was kidnapped

Gen 13:12  Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Gen 14:12  And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. 

Abraham rescues Lot from captors

(Gen 14:14)  And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

(Gen 14:15)  And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

(Gen 14:16)  And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

Angels enter Lot's house and he serves them

(Gen 19:1)  And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

(Gen 19:2)  And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

(Gen 19:3)  And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

Men surround Lot's house and he confronts them

(Gen 19:4)  But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

(Gen 19:5)  And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

(Gen 19:6)  And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

(Gen 19:7)  And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

Lot offers daughter's to men they force themselves upon him.

There's controversy over Homosexuality taken place here but no where does it state intercourse of same sex Lot just offers his daughters who have not been with man which he says not to do to the men, insinuate what you will?

(Gen 19:8)  Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

(Gen 19:9)  And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

(Gen 19:10)  But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

Men are blinded and demand they come out

(Gen 19:11)  And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

(Gen 19:12)  And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

(Gen 19:13)  For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

Lot flee's to nearby city Zoar when God is going to destroy Sodom

(Gen 19:14)  And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

(Gen 19:15)  And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

(Gen 19:16)  And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

(Gen 19:17)  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.

(Gen 19:18)  And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

(Gen 19:19)  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:

(Gen 19:20)  Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

(Gen 19:21)  And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

(Gen 19:22)  Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

God overthrows cities in which Lot dwelled

(Gen 19:23)  The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

(Gen 19:24)  Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

(Gen 19:25)  And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

(Gen 19:26)  But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

(Gen 19:27)  And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

(Gen 19:28)  And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

(Gen 19:29)  And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

Lot and his daughters

(Gen 19:30)  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.

(Gen 19:31)  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:

(Gen 19:32)  Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

(Gen 19:33)  And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

(Gen 19:34)  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.

(Gen 19:35)  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.

(Gen 19:36)  Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

(Gen 19:37)  And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

(Gen 19:38)  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.

Ar given unto the children of Lot

Deu 2:9  And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. 
Deu 2:18  Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: 

Deu 2:19  And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession. 

Lot/ Son of man revealed

(Luk 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;

(Luk 17:29)  But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

(Luk 17:30)  Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

(Luk 17:31)  In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

(Luk 17:32)  Remember Lot's wife.