Daily Devotional, Monday, October 30, 2023
Sexual Perversions Judged
Genesis 19:1-13
1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom.
When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
2 and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and
wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will
spend the night in the town square.”
3 But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And
he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old,
all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
5 And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out
to us, that we may know them.”
6 Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him,
7 and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
8 Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to
you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come
under the shelter of my roof.”
9 But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has
become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed
hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.
10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and
shut the door.
11 And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both
small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.
12 Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters,
or anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place.
13 For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become
great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”