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However, the men of the city gather around the house and demand that Lot hand over the men so they can "know them". Lot admonishes them for their wickedness, and offers the mob his two virgin daughters instead. When the mob refuses Lot's offer, the angels strike them with blindness, and then warn Lot to leave the city before it is destroyed. [2]
The story, usually called Lot and his daughters, has been the subject of many paintings over the centuries, and became one of the subjects in the Power of Women group of subjects, warning men against the dangers of succumbing to the temptations of women, while also providing an opportunity for an erotic depiction. The scene generally shows Lot ...
However, the men of the city gathered around Lot's house and demanded that he give them the two guests so that they could rape them. In response to this, Lot offers the mob his two virgin daughters instead. The mob refuses Lot's offer, but the angels strike them with blindness, God eventually destroys the city, and Lot and his family escape.
Because of intoxication, Lot "perceived not" when his first-born daughter, and the following night his younger daughter, lay with him. (Genesis 19:32–35) The two children born were directly Lot's sons and indirectly his grandsons, being his daughters' sons. Likewise, their sons were also half-brothers (between them and with their mothers ...
Only Lot and his two daughters are saved. Lot's incestuous relationship with his daughters, which resulted in the births of Ammon and Moab, is also described. PEOPLE: Angels - Lot - men of Sodom - Lot's sons-in-law - Lot's wife - Lot's daughters - יהוה YHWH - Abraham - Moab - Benammi. PLACES: Sodom - Gomorrah - Zoar
So out of God's mercy, the men seized Lot, his wife, and daughters and brought them out of the city, telling them to flee for their lives and not to stop or look back anywhere in the plain. [28] But Lot asked them whether he might flee to a little village nearby. [29] The third reading ends here. [30]
Image credits: Fredrik Tsinajine Sr. #2. I was not allowed to hang out with black friends outside of school. According to my mother, it was perfectly fine to be friendly towards them at school ...
Mount Sodom, Israel, showing a pillar referred to as "Lot's Wife", made of halite. Noah cursed Canaan to be a servant to his brother's servants and a servant to his fathers brothers. (see Curse of Ham) Lot's wife "became a pillar of salt" when she "looked back" when fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction. [8]