Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed

19 The two angels(A) arrived at Sodom(B) in the evening, and Lot(C) was sitting in the gateway of the city.(D) When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.(E)

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19 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

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18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and he was heavy. He had led[a](A) Israel forty years.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 4:18 Traditionally judged

18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

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12 Those who sit at the gate(A) mock me,
    and I am the song of the drunkards.(B)

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12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

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21 on top of the wall[a] she cries out,
    at the city gate she makes her speech:

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:21 Septuagint; Hebrew / at noisy street corners

21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

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Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy

19 This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and stand at the Gate of the People,[a] through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:19 Or Army

19 Thus said the Lord unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

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Even their children remember
    their altars and Asherah poles[a](A)
beside the spreading trees
    and on the high hills.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:2 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

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