2. and said, “Gentlemen, I am your servant. Please come to my home. You can wash your feet, spend the night, and be on your way in the morning.”They told him, “No, we'll spend the night in the city square.”
3. But Lot kept insisting, until they finally agreed and went home with him. He baked some bread, cooked a meal, and they ate.
4. Before Lot and his guests could go to bed, every man in Sodom, young and old, came and stood outside his house
5. and started shouting, “Where are your visitors? Send them out, so we can have sex with them!”
6. Lot went outside and shut the door behind him.
7. Then he said, “Friends, please don't do such a terrible thing!
8. I have two daughters who have never been married. I'll bring them out, and you can do what you want with them. But don't harm these men. They are guests in my home.”
9. “Don't get in our way,” the crowd answered. “You're an outsider. What right do you have to order us around? We'll do worse things to you than we're going to do to them.”The crowd kept arguing with Lot. Finally, they rushed towards the door to break it down.
18-19. Lot answered, “You have done us a great favour, sir. You have saved our lives, but please don't make us go to the hills. That's too far away. The city will be destroyed before we can get there, and we will be killed when it happens.
20. There's a town near here. It's only a small place, but my family and I will be safe, if you let us go there.”
21. “All right, go there,” he answered. “I won't destroy that town.
22. Hurry! Run! I can't do anything until you are safely there.”The town was later called Zoar because Lot had said it was small.
23. The sun was coming up as Lot reached the town of Zoar,