Genesis 19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
When he and the town folk knew they were married?
Genesis 19:14 8 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.”
KJV ... did he LIE?
Unless you read the NIV which reads ...
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.
Or maybe they thought he was joking around the first time around also?
Two words....jewish fable.
Don't believe everything you read in the bible is true. Some is, some isn't.
If you will offer your daughters to a crowd of crazy men what is the big deal about a lie?
Really!!!
Talk about the father of the year!!! Lot's entire life illustrated that he was spoiled and self-absorbed.
His daughters followed his example and used him to accomplish their own selfish goals.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
That must have been interesting! Did you do Numbers 31, too?
Ya but I preferred this play:
Judges 21:20-23
20 So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, "Go and hide in the vineyards 21 and watch. When the girls of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing, then rush from the vineyards and each of you seize a wife from the girls of Shiloh and go to the land of Benjamin. 22 When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, 'Do us a kindness by helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war, and you are innocent, since you did not give your daughters to them.' "
23 So that is what the Benjamites did. While the girls were dancing, each man caught one and carried her off to be his wife. Then they returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and settled in them.
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"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." ~Aesop
WOW !!!! The Judges 19 story is eerily similar to the Lot story ...
Each seems to hinge on the Middle Easter ethos of the treatment of strangers in the home ... in which somehow it is more honorable to give up one's own daughter or concubine rather than harm being done to a visiting stranger in one's home.
Hard from our 20th century Western view to fathom.
Same story in Judges 19 only they raped her all night to the point that she died.
What a nauseating story!
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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