Lot was Abraham's nephew who accompanied him from Ur to Canaan. When they had to separate due to large flocks, Lot chose the fertile Jordan Valley and settled in Sodom. He was rescued from the city's destruction by angels, but lost his wife when she looked back.
5Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had acquired, and the people they had gained in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.
10Lot looked up and saw the whole Jordan Valley, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.
14When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he mustered his trained men, born in his household, three hundred eighteen of them, and pursued as far as Dan.
1The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, while Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed with his face to the ground.
2He said, "Please, my lords, turn aside to your servant's house. Spend the night and wash your feet, and you can rise early and go on your way." "No," they said, "we will spend the night in the square."
3But he pressed them so strongly that they turned aside to him and came into his house. He prepared a feast for them, baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
11Then they struck the men at the entrance of the house with blindness, small and great alike, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the doorway.
15As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, "Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."
16When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters, for the LORD had mercy on him. They led them out and left them outside the city.
17Once they had brought them out, one of them said, "Run for your life! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, or you will be swept away."