The Homiletic Review Genesis 13:10-12 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where… I. HIS CHOICE. II. HIS MOTIVE. 1. Not the expectation of better religious advantages. 2. Not the hope of benefiting others. 3. Evidently to advance his worldly interests. III. WHAT HE GAINED. fit home in Sodom. IV. WHAT HE LOST. 1. The helpful influence of Christian fellowship. 2. Moral tone in character — evidently on the downgrade. 3. His happiness. 4. His property; first in war, then by fire. 5. All of his adherents, and part of his own family, in the final destruction of Sodom. (The Homiletic Review.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. |