OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 19:14

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Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

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Verse 14. Sons-in-law. Perhaps they also were among the crowd, (verse 4,) and therefore deserved to be abandoned to their incredulity; though, if they would have consented to follow Lot, the angels would have saved them for his sake.—In jest. So little did they suffer God’s judgments to disturb them!

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