Don't forget also that soon after this--after Lot's wife was killed, Lot's daughters got him drunk so as to get pregnant by him.
This isn't as culturally weird as we may think...in that pagan Canaanites routinely practiced incest. Even Baal and Ashteroth, Canaanite fertility gods--were brother & sister AND husband & wife...it's gross, but true. It really does show how corrupted Lot and family got, just by living with the pagan Sodomites.
It's also worth noting that when Moses recorded this, somewhere around 1400 BC, two of Israel's big pagan enemy tribes in Palestine--were their relatives descended from Lot's incest with his daughters, the Ammonites, and the Moabites.
By Moses' day, these cousin tribes were thoroughly pagan--worshipping idols, and routinely practicing child sacrifice.
Yes, I knew that too.
Disgusting!
And if we think it disgusting and vile, how much more so does God? Wow!
Just a warning to those Christians that are so sure they will enter the Kingdom. Even Jesus warned about such thinking.
How many freeper fathers would do to their daughters what Lot proposed to do to his. Turning them over to be raped and sodomize, females can also be sodomized...just because he felt the 2 male visitors were of more worth than his daughters...
So what that the daughters got their father drunk and had him commit incest.(He willing complied in his drunkon stupor he no longer had a wife) Through out scripture it seems that God also didn't think anything wrong with giving his daughtes to rapists, If he thought it wrong, the scripture does not state so. But lets turn Lots wife to salt, because she looked back....Was God acting against what he told men to do? He obiviously didn't think it wrong to have 2 females raped, sodomized and perhaps killed..
It the wedding of the bridegroom, he again got P Oed and told his men to go out and force people into the wedding. Was it an embarretment that so few cared about the wedding? I just have lots (not a pun) of questions about do as I say and not as I do situations.
It seems a lot of people come to the defense of such actions when they should be questioning them. just jmho.
King David lusted after another mans wife and had the husband killed so he could sleep with her...his only punishment was he couldn't build the temple cause he had too much blood on his hands, but his son by Bathsheba could...but God loved him, he repented but the husband was still dead and David when on still being Gods favorite.
Just a few questions I have never found a good reason for except, It many ways the Koran treats women the way the men of the old testament did without being chastised by God...His laws called for stoning of women just as Koran does. And has a whole lot of punishments for certain actions, some that make no sense. jmho