Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
19 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[a] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
16 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. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords,[b] please! 19 Your[c] servant has found favor in your[d] eyes, and you[e] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[f])
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
History channel.
Almost all aliens...almost all the time.
Ideal place for climate change flunkies, obviously.
I gave up watching any “documentary” or “historical” programs about the Bible or Christianity long ago. They are all barely disguised hit pieces or anti Christian propaganda.
A quick read through any program description usual tells you what kind of slant they are going to put on it.
Isn’t Gomorrah some place in Ireland?
Sodom was full of sin. We do not know precisely what the extent of the sin was.
What we do know however is the sin of man today is the same as it was then because man was born the same then as man is born today.
The History Channel original programming is garbage. At best.
I tried to watch its “The Story of US”, a supposed survey of American history.
Couldn’t finish two episodes...it is a sickening leftist piece of propaganda. The single conservative “commentator” they put on that I recall was Newt, and he was obviously there as a token.
Howard Zinn inspired.
If anyone wants a GREAT survey of American history, read Paul Johnson’s. Howard Zinn’s perspective is full of hate for this nation.
>Lot’s family leaves Sodom, destruction rains down, his wife looks back and is turned into salt.
With results like this, it begs the question why has nothing like it happened since? As for parting waters the last time I saw that was when some unidentified people I was with set off 3 sticks of Dupont Red Arrow 70% in a 10 ft. deep pond.
I watched this part. It was so bad. They did of course leave out the part where the boys from Sodom were there to rape the visitors. But when one of the Angels turned into a Samurai I said that’s it. The History Channel is lost.
Now for the controversy over the type of salt Lot’s wife was turned into and the next history channel special: Rock salt, Dead Sea type salt, Sea Salt, or kosher salt? Inquiring minds want to know.
(sarcasm)
Yeah, when I first started watching this series a couple of years ago when it first came out, I turned it off after the kung fu angels segment and stopped watching; to me it was just too ludicrous, especially since the angels could have just struck them all blind. I am sure they carry swords (e.g Genesis 3:24; Chronicles 21:16; Numbers 22:23), but it’s more for supernatural enemies, they don’t need them for mere mortals.
I look at the distorted Bible movies and tv series like this...
No they are not accurate. But maybe, just maybe, someone will pick a Bible and read what it says.
At least there are Biblical movies being made. I never thought I would see that again.
It seems that, according to the History Channel, there was no sodomy in Sodom.
"Angles?" How obtuse!