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;

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.

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

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

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;

² Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.