That evening, the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there, and when he saw them, he stood to meet them. Then he welcomed and bowed with his face to the ground. “My lords,”he said, “come to my home to wash your feet, and be my guests for the night. You may then get up early and be on your way again.” (vv. 1-2A, NLT)
“Meanwhile, the angels questioned Lot. “Do you have any other relative here in the city?” they asked. “Get them out of this place-your sons-in-laws, sons, daughters or anyone else. For we are about to destroy this city completely. The outcry against this place is so great it has reached the Lord, and He has sent us to destroy it.”
So Lot rushed to tell his daughters’, fiances, “Quick get out of the city! The Lord is about to destroy it!” But the youn men thought he was only joking.
At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”
When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the Lord was merciful. When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, “Run for your lives! And don’t look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away!.”(vv. 12-17, NLT)