Lot

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. Feast of

See Purim

2. The son of Haran

Accompanies Terah from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran

• Genesis 11:31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

Migrates with Abraham to the land of Canaan

• Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

Accompanies Abraham to Egypt

Returns with him to Beth-el

• Genesis 13:1–3 So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev— he and his wife and all his possessions— and Lot was with him. And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold. From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where…

Rich in flocks, and herds, and servants

Separates from Abraham, and locates in Sodom

• Genesis 13:5–14 Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist. And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At…

Taken captive by Chedorlaomer; rescued by Abraham

• Genesis 14:1–16 In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). The latter five came as allies to…

Providentially saved from destruction in Sodom

• Genesis 19 Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown, and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on… (whole chapter)
• Luke 17:28–29 It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Disobediently protests against going to the mountains, and chooses Zoar

• Genesis 19:17–22 As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!” But Lot replied, “No, my lords, please! Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown m…

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

• Genesis 19:26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
• Luke 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife!

Commits incest with his daughters

• Genesis 19:30–38 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains — for he was afraid to stay in Zoar — where they lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth. Come, let us…

Descendants of

See Ammonites

See Moabites