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  Lot (Bible) - LoveToKnow 1911
LOT, in the Bible, the legendary ancestor of the two Palestinian peoples, Moab and Ammon (Gen. xix.
Near Bethel' Lot separated from Abraham, owing to disputes between their shepherds, and being offered the first choice, chose the rich fields of the Jordan valley which were as fertile and well irrigated as the "garden of Yahweh" (i.e.
His wife looked back and was changed to a pillar of salt, 2 but Lot with his two daughters escaped first to Zoar and then to the mountains east of the Dead Sea, where the daughters planned and executed an incest by which they became the mothers of Moab and Ben-Ammi (i.e.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lot
Lot interceded in behalf of his guests in accordance with his duties as host, which are most sacred in the East, but made the mistake of placing them above his duties as a father by offering his two daughters to the wicked designs of the Sodomites (6-8).
The angels then made known to Lot the object of their visit to Sodom, which they were sent to destroy, and advised him to leave the city at once with his family and belongings.
Lot's wife, disregarding the injunction of the angels, looked back, and was converted into a pillar of salt (24-26).
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 Easton's Bible Dictionary: Lot
The lot was always resorted to by the Hebrews with strictest reference to the interposition of God, and as a method of ascertaining the divine will (Proverbs 16:33), and in serious cases of doubt (Esther 3:7).
Lot, (Hebrews lot), a covering; veil, the son of Haran, and nephew of Abraham (Genesis 11:27).
Lot and his daughters sought refuge first in Zoar, and then, fearing to remain there longer, retired to a cave in the neighbouring mountains (Genesis 19:30).
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 Lot (Bible) - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
Lot went southeast to plains near the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, since the land there was well watered.
Lot left Zoar and retired with his two daughters to a cave in an adjacent mountain.
Abraham took care of Lot after Haran was burned in a gigantic fire in which Nimrod, King of Babylon, tried to kill Abraham.
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 Lot
The next morning, urged by the angels to hasten on, Lot, with his wife and 2 unmarried daughters, fled from the city toward the small town of Zoar.
Lot and his daughters later fled into the hills, where they lived in a cave.
Lot’s memory still lingers on in the area of his stay in the modern Arabic name for the Dead Sea, the "Sea of Lot." -- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Dictionary.
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 Holy Spirit Interactive: Bible Discovery - Lot
One of the more controversial characters in the Bible, Lot was the son of Haran, grandson of Terah, and nephew of Abraham.
Lot and his daughters sought refuge first in Zoar, and then, fearing to remain there longer, retired to a cave in the neighbouring mountains.
Lot has recently been connected with the people called on the Egyptian monuments Rotanu or Lotanu, who is supposed to have been the hero of the Edomite tribe Lotan.
www.holyspiritinteractive.net /biblediscovery/lot.asp   (367 words)

  
 Lot's Wife
They ordered Lot to stand aside and accused him of judging them (how often I have found this to be the response of the wicked: It is a quite common event when you are speaking the truth to the unrighteous, when they feel the condemnation by the Holy Spirit, they yell: you are judging me).
Lot suggested that a near-by city be spared since the mountains were to far away.
Lot and his daughters proceeded by faith, she refused to accept the warning of the angels (she probably said that they were just men and not angels sent from God, as most of us would do).
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 Lot (1) (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The man who bore the name Lot (lot; Lot) is mentioned for the first time in Genesis 11:27, at the beginning of that section of Genesis which is entitled "the generations of Terah." After Terah's 3 sons are named, it is added that the third of these, Haran, begat Lot.
In Genesis 14:14, Genesis 14:16 Lot is termed the "brother" of Abraham; but that this does not represent a variant tradition is proved by reference to Genesis 14:12 of the same chapter (ascribed to "an independent source") and to Genesis 13:8 (ascribed to J; compare Genesis 11:28 J).
Lot's wife: This woman, unknown by name, figures in the narrative of Lot that relates his escape from Sodom.
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 Wome of the Bible: Lot's Wife
Lot, the head of his household, looked at the surrounding land and chose the best he could see.
Lot's wife fell in love with the city and her way of life there.
Lot wasn't as comfortable living there as his wife, but he was weak in character and stayed.
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 Lot (1) - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
in Genesis 11, the migration from Ur to Haran; in Genesis 12, Abraham's wanderings; in Genesis 13, the separation of Abraham and Lot; in Genesis 14, the campaign of the eastern kings against Sodom and Abraham's recovery of the captives; and in Genesis 19, the destruction of Sodom.
In Genesis 14:14,16 Lot is termed the "brother" of Abraham; but that this does not represent a variant tradition is proved by reference to 14:12 of the same chapter (ascribed to "an independent source") and to 13:8 (ascribed to J; compare 11:28 J).
The language of 2 Peter 2:7,8 reminds us that Lot was, even at this time of his life, a "righteous" man. Viewed as a part of his environment (the writer has been speaking of Sodom, 19:6), Lot was certainly entitled to be called a "righteous" man, and the term fits the implications of Genesis 18:23-32.
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 Lot, after fleeing Sodom, got drunk and had sex with his daughters. Was Lot an alcoholic? - at BibleStudy.org
Afterward Lot left Zoar because he was afraid of the people there, and he went to live in a cave in the mountains with his two daughters.
Lot's daughters must have thought it was the end of civilization and that they were some of the only people then living.
Lot's daughters, wanting to continue the family, got their father so filled with food and wine that he became totally unaware of what was going on.
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 Lot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lot was the son of Haran and nephew of Abraham.
He was spared from the destruction of the kingdom of Sodom and Gomorrah, although his wife was turned into a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:26).
Lot's two sons from this union were Moab (Hebrew meaning "from my father") and Ben-Ami (Hebrew meaning "Son of my father).
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 Butler Biography Series - Lot
Where Lot is to be faulted is in his failure to take heed to the warning of this compromise in associations.
This is seen in Lot’s experience in Sodom and especially in the last scene Scripture gives of his life in which each of his last two unmarried daughters obtained a child by him through incest.
Second, Lot’s willingness to give his daughters to the homosexuals to do to them as they wished (Genesis 19:8) reminds us of Abraham who, through his lying about Sarah being his sister, gave Sarah to Pharaoh to do to her body as he wished.
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 Who saw Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt? - at BibleStudy.org
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.
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.
Lot stopped running to gaze at the destruction of the city.
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 Daily Bible Study - Lot
Lot, from the Hebrew word pronounced lote, was the son of Haran, grandson of Terah, and nephew of Abraham (Genesis 11:27).
It's destruction, and how Lot survived it, is covered in Remember Lot's Wife and The Destruction Of Sodom.
"Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar.
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 Lot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kamehameha V (Lot Kapuaiwa), king of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1863-1872.
Lot River, a tributary of the Garonne river in France.
Lot, Belgium, a village in the municipality of Beersel, Belgium
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 SAB, Genesis 19
Lot's nameless wife looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt.
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.
Lot and his daughters camp out in a cave for a while.
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 SAB, Lot, the just and righteous
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.) 2 Peter 2:7-8
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.
Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
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 Lot - Bible Wiki
In a war, Lot was carried away from Sodom by the king Kedorlaomer.
When Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, Lot was saved because he showed a lot of hospitality towards the two angels.
While Lot, his wife and his two daughters were running away, his wife looked back and was converted into a pillar of salt.
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 Lot (Bible) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lot is mentioned in chapters 11-14 and 19.
He recovered the spoils they had taken and brought back Lot with the other captives.
Get as fast as you are able to the mountain, unless you be involved in the calamity of the city." Lot entreated the angels, who consented that he might retire to Zoar, which was one of the five doomed cities.
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 Sam's Bible Stories: The Story of Lot
Lot invited the angels into his house and shut the door.
Also, the Koran does not say that Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt, but it does say that a terrible fate befell her and they she was left behind because of her disobedience.
In the Koran, the name of Lot is spelled Lut and the name of Abraham is spelled Ibrahim, but these are clearly the same men and the same story.
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 Bible Commentary: Genesis 19:28-38 [Lot and His Daughters]
Lot committed no sin; perhaps the daughters were *also* free of sin, unless we can establish that they had been forbidden to conceive children by their father; we already know that alcohol was not forbidden until much later.
>Lot was a prophet; and all prophets were a special select of God to be >his messengers to the people.
Lomax in this specific case, that if anyone is guilty then it is the daughters and not necessarily Lot, nevertheless in general his actions don't give too glorious an image in the Old Testament, yet he is given a positive evaluation in the second epistle of Peter, chapter 2, verse 7.
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 Lot, in the Bible. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Lot settled in Sodom and received a warning of its destruction.
As he fled with his family, his wife, disobeying God’s orders, looked back at the city and was turned into a pillar of salt.
In biblical ethnography, Lot is considered the eponymous ancestor of the Moabites and Ammonites.
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 Lot - Bible Characters, Bible Trivia
Lot believed that God was going to bless Abram in a great way and wanted to receive the blessing.
Lot was learning from Abram how to survive in the desert.
Lot, his possessions, and the women and other people who had been taken captive.
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 Holy Spirit Interactive: Bible Discovery - Lot's Wife
When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.
Lot and his family hurried away toward Zoar, a city God promised to spare on Lot's request.
Either sensing the destruction behind her, or more probably experiencing a strong sense of regret at having to leave behind a town that she liked, Lot's wife looked back and was instantly turned into a pillar of salt.
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 Genesis 13: Abram and Lot - Bible kjv - 888c.com
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 13:10 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 13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
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 Lot's Choice!
Not only were Abram and Lot living on this land, but the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land, too.
Lot chose to move east and live in the Jordan valley, and Abram lived in the land of Canaan.
But Lot lived among the cities in the Jordan valley and moved very close to the wicked city of Sodom.
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 Lesson: Abram's Call & Lot
Bible story from Genesis chapters 12-24 is illustrated and told for children.
On the other hand, Lot valued the rich land near the cities, and preferred taking it above honoring his uncle.
Abram allowed Lot to chose which land to settle on.
www.ebibleteacher.com /children/lessons/OT/Genesis/AbramsCall_Lot.htm   (692 words)

  
 BLB (KJV) Gen 13
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.
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.
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom.
www.blueletterbible.org /kjv/Gen/Gen013.html   (485 words)

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