Genesis 19:30-38
God’s rescue does not eliminate human sinfulness, and unchecked fear and unbelief can lead to further corruption.
30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
31 The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.
37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
God’s rescue does not eliminate human sinfulness, and unchecked fear and unbelief can lead to further corruption.
To record the aftermath of Sodom’s destruction, exposing ongoing moral corruption and establishing the origins of Moab and Ammon.
The LORD Judges Sodom, Delivers Lot, and Reveals the Horror of Sin and the Mercy of God
The LORD justly destroys Sodom for its grievous wickedness, yet mercifully rescues Lot for Abraham’s sake, showing both the terror of judgment and the preserving grace of God amid the wreckage caused by compromise.