The Bible In Paintings: SODOM, GOMORRAH AND LOT

[Hebrews 11:6]

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G E N E S I S
CHAPTER 19:1-26

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. “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.”

But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. Before they had gone to bed, all the men of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 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.”

Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 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.”

“Get out of our way,” they replied. They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 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.

The two men said to Lot, “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.”

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.”

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. 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! Flee or you will be swept away!”

By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. BUT LOT’S WIFE LOOKED BACK, AND SHE BECAME A PILLAR OF SALT.

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

1
PHILIPP GALLE
"Two Angels Visit Lot"

2
JAMES TISSOT
"The Sodomites"

3
GERARD HOET
"The Sodomites are Smitten with Blindness"

4
M. VAN DER GUCHT
"The Two Angels Pull Lot back into his House,
away from the Rapacious, Blinded Mob"

5
JOHN MARTIN
"The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah"

6
BENJAMIN WEST
"Lot Fleeing from Sodom"

7
JUAN DE LA CORTE
"Lot and his Daughters Escaping from
the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah"

8
"Lot and His Daughters"

9
GILLIS MOSTAERT
"The Destruction"

10
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER
"Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah"

11
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER
"Sodom and Gomorrah"

12
KERSTIAEN DE KEUNINCK
"Sodom and Gomorrah Being Destroyed"

13
JACOB DE WET II
"Sodom and Gomorrah Afire"

14
PIETER SCHOUBROECK
"The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah"

15
JAMES TISSOT
"Abraham Sees Sodom in Flames"

16
GUIDO RENI
"Lot and His Daughters Leaving Sodom"

17
JOOS DE MOMPER the Younger
"Lot and His Daughters Fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah"

18
JOACHIM PATINIR
"Lot and His Family Flee Sodom and Gomorrah"

19
EVELYN SNYDER
"Sodom and Gomorrah"

20
"Sodom's Destruction; Lot and Daughters Escape"

21
JUAN DE LA CORTE
"Lot and His Daughters"

22
"Lot and His Daughters Flee Sodom"

23
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Lot's Escape from Sodom"

24
NICOLAES MAES
"The Flight of Lot"

25
DANIEL VAN HEIL
"Burning City with Lot and the Angel and His Daughters"

26
WILLIAM HAMILTON
"Lot with His Wife and Daughters Cast Out of Sodom"

27
MATTHIAS STOM
"Lot Leaving Sodom"

28
PETER PAUL RUBENS
"Lot Fleeing Sodom"

29
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Destruction of Sodom"

30
GILLIS MOSTAERT
"Lot and His Daughters Guided by Angels"

31
RAPHAEL
"Lot and His Daughters Fleeing
the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah"

32
"Lot Leaving Sodom"

CHAPTER 19:30-38

Lot and his two daughters settled in the mountains and lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. Let’s get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I lay with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him.” So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today. The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

33
HENDRICK DE SOMER
"Lot and His Daughters"

34
PETER PAUL RUBENS
"Lot and His Daughters"

35
GUERCINO
"Lot and His Daughters"

36
ORAZIO GENTILESCHI
"Lot and His Daughters"

37
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
"Lot and His Daughters"

38
GILLIS MOSTAERT
"Sodom and Gomorrah"

39
ARENT DE GELDER
"Lot and His Daughters"

40
ANDREA VACCARO
"Lot and His Daughters"

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41
MARCANTONIO FRANCESCHINI
"Lot and His Daughters"

[Forgiven_Sinner]

If you look through scripture you’ll find a lot of puns: Adam..red dirt, Isaac..laughter, Jacob..deceiver, Israel..wrestle with God. And that’s just Genesis

[Hebrews 11:6]

It is an immense relief to me that God has a sense of humor.

[Huskrrrr]

Beautiful collection, I can’t pick a favorite. Reminds me of fleeing San Francisco four years ago.

[MayflowerMadam]

It’s interesting how different artists portray Lot’s wife.

[Hebrews 11:6]

I lived in Frisco during the summer of ‘71 and cannot say that I’ve missed it. But it’s greatly changed now....

[Hebrews 11:6]

I know you don’t identify with her or her weakness.