WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.960 Malcom: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.083 --> 00:00:03.803 Day 88 00:00:04.254 --> 00:00:07.134 then the men got up from their meal and looked out towards Sodom 00:00:07.914 --> 00:00:10.674 As they left, Abraham went with them to send them on their way. 00:00:11.934 --> 00:00:14.244 Should I hide my plan from Abraham? 00:00:14.694 --> 00:00:18.744 The Lord asked for Abraham will certainly become a great and mighty 00:00:18.744 --> 00:00:22.374 nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him. 00:00:23.379 --> 00:00:27.099 I have singled him out so that he will direct his sons and their families 00:00:27.489 --> 00:00:32.679 to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just then I will do 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:34.809 for Abraham all that I have promised. 00:00:35.649 --> 00:00:40.569 So the Lord told Abraham, I have heard a great outcry from so Sodom and Gomorrah 00:00:40.929 --> 00:00:42.819 because their sin is so flagrant. 00:00:43.599 --> 00:00:46.839 I'm going down to see if their actions are as wicked as I have heard. 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:52.359 If not, I want to know the other man turned and headed towards Sodom. 00:00:52.884 --> 00:00:54.504 The Lord remained with Abraham. 00:00:55.284 --> 00:00:58.764 Abraham approached him and said, will you sweep away both 00:00:58.764 --> 00:01:00.504 the righteous and the wicked? 00:01:01.134 --> 00:01:04.614 Suppose you find 50 righteous people living there in the city, 00:01:05.244 --> 00:01:08.664 will you still sweep it away and not spare it for their sakes? 00:01:09.354 --> 00:01:13.404 Surely you wouldn't do such a thing destroying the righteous along with the 00:01:13.404 --> 00:01:18.474 wicked, while you would be treating the righteous and the wicked exactly the same. 00:01:19.029 --> 00:01:20.469 Surely you wouldn't do that. 00:01:21.039 --> 00:01:23.829 Should not the judge of all the earth do what is right. 00:01:24.759 --> 00:01:29.709 And the Lord replied, if I find 50 righteous people in Sodom, I will 00:01:29.709 --> 00:01:31.749 spare the entire city for their sake. 00:01:32.979 --> 00:01:34.389 Then Abraham spoke again. 00:01:35.019 --> 00:01:39.639 Since I have begun, let me speak further to my Lord, even though I am, but 00:01:39.639 --> 00:01:45.609 dust and ashes, suppose there are only 45 righteous people rather than 50. 00:01:46.404 --> 00:01:48.804 Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five? 00:01:49.794 --> 00:01:54.504 And the Lord said, I will not destroy it if I find 45 righteous people there. 00:01:55.314 --> 00:01:57.564 Then Abraham pressed his request further. 00:01:58.044 --> 00:02:02.124 Suppose there are only 40 and the Lord replied, I will not 00:02:02.124 --> 00:02:03.924 destroy it for the sake of the 40. 00:02:04.824 --> 00:02:06.084 Please don't be angry. 00:02:06.084 --> 00:02:08.004 My Lord Abraham pleaded. 00:02:08.364 --> 00:02:09.264 Let me speak. 00:02:09.594 --> 00:02:12.054 Suppose only 30 righteous people are found. 00:02:12.774 --> 00:02:16.344 And the Lord replied, I will not destroy it if I find 30. 00:02:17.184 --> 00:02:22.044 Then Abraham said, since I have dared to speak to the Lord, let me continue. 00:02:22.494 --> 00:02:27.414 Suppose there are only 20 and the Lord replied, then I will not 00:02:27.419 --> 00:02:29.154 destroy it for the sake of the 20. 00:02:30.204 --> 00:02:35.664 Finally, Abraham said, Lord, please don't be angry with me if I speak one more time. 00:02:36.204 --> 00:02:38.124 Suppose only 10 are found there. 00:02:39.099 --> 00:02:43.209 And the Lord replied, then I will not destroy it for the sake of the 10. 00:02:44.259 --> 00:02:47.739 When the Lord had finished his conversation with Abraham, he went on 00:02:47.739 --> 00:02:50.889 his way and Abraham returned to his tent. 00:02:52.689 --> 00:02:56.289 That evening, the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. 00:02:56.829 --> 00:03:00.339 Lot was sitting there and when he saw them, he stood up to meet them. 00:03:01.179 --> 00:03:04.179 Then he welcomed them and bowed with his face to the ground. 00:03:04.764 --> 00:03:10.194 My Lords, he said, come to my home to wash your feet and be my guests for the night. 00:03:10.734 --> 00:03:13.524 You may then get up early in the morning and be on your way again. 00:03:14.184 --> 00:03:18.294 Oh no, they replied, we'll just spend the night out here in the city square. 00:03:18.954 --> 00:03:20.064 But lot insisted. 00:03:20.604 --> 00:03:24.294 So at last they went home with him, lot prepared, a feast for 00:03:24.294 --> 00:03:28.584 them, complete with fresh bread made without yeast, and they ate. 00:03:29.604 --> 00:03:33.684 But before they retired for the night, all the men of Sodom, young 00:03:33.684 --> 00:03:37.194 and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house. 00:03:37.794 --> 00:03:38.784 They shouted a lot. 00:03:39.294 --> 00:03:41.574 Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? 00:03:41.814 --> 00:03:44.484 Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them. 00:03:45.564 --> 00:03:47.394 So lot stepped outside to talk to them. 00:03:47.604 --> 00:03:50.124 Shutting the door behind him, please. 00:03:50.124 --> 00:03:51.864 My brothers, he begged. 00:03:52.164 --> 00:03:53.784 Don't do such a wicked thing. 00:03:54.369 --> 00:03:56.709 Look, I have two virgin daughters. 00:03:57.069 --> 00:04:00.579 Let me bring them out to you and you can do with them as you wish. 00:04:01.089 --> 00:04:04.479 But please leave these men alone for they're my guests 00:04:04.839 --> 00:04:06.159 and are under my protection. 00:04:06.909 --> 00:04:08.559 Stand back, they shouted. 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:13.299 This fellow came to town as an outsider and now he's acting like our judge. 00:04:13.929 --> 00:04:16.329 Treat you far worse than those other men. 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:19.819 And they lunge toward lot to break down the door. 00:04:20.874 --> 00:04:25.224 But the two angels reached out, pulled lot into the house and bolted the door. 00:04:25.734 --> 00:04:30.084 Then they blinded all the men, young and old, who were at the door of the house. 00:04:30.504 --> 00:04:32.574 So they gave up trying to get inside. 00:04:33.984 --> 00:04:36.054 Meanwhile, the angels questioned lot. 00:04:36.774 --> 00:04:38.934 Do you have any other relatives here in the city? 00:04:39.024 --> 00:04:41.874 They asked, get them out of this place. 00:04:42.144 --> 00:04:47.034 Your sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else for we are about 00:04:47.034 --> 00:04:48.984 to destroy this city completely. 00:04:49.869 --> 00:04:52.239 The outcry against this place is so great. 00:04:52.239 --> 00:04:55.449 It has reached the Lord and he has sent us to destroy it. 00:04:56.439 --> 00:05:01.119 So lot rushed out to tell his daughter's fiances quick, get out of the city. 00:05:01.449 --> 00:05:03.159 The Lord is about to destroy it. 00:05:03.909 --> 00:05:05.679 But the young man thought he was only joking. 00:05:07.149 --> 00:05:09.999 At dawn the next morning, the angels became insistent. 00:05:10.509 --> 00:05:11.919 Hurry, they said a lot. 00:05:12.429 --> 00:05:14.769 Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. 00:05:15.069 --> 00:05:19.329 Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city. 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:24.399 When lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:28.299 his wife and two daughters and rush them to safety outside the city. 00:05:28.809 --> 00:05:30.309 For the Lord was merciful. 00:05:31.089 --> 00:05:33.999 When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered. 00:05:34.329 --> 00:05:38.829 Run for your lives and don't look back or stop anywhere in the valley. 00:05:39.309 --> 00:05:42.459 Escape to the mountains or you will be swept away. 00:05:43.209 --> 00:05:45.999 Oh no, my Lord lot begged. 00:05:46.479 --> 00:05:50.019 You have been so gracious to me and saved my life, and you have 00:05:50.019 --> 00:05:54.129 shown such great kindness, but I cannot go to the mountains. 00:05:54.489 --> 00:05:57.569 Disaster would catch up to me there and I would soon die. 00:05:58.284 --> 00:06:00.384 See there is a small village nearby. 00:06:00.684 --> 00:06:02.154 Please let me go there instead. 00:06:02.574 --> 00:06:04.104 Don't you see how small it is? 00:06:04.464 --> 00:06:06.144 Then my life will be saved. 00:06:07.104 --> 00:06:07.644 All right. 00:06:08.064 --> 00:06:10.614 The angel said I will grant your request. 00:06:11.094 --> 00:06:15.684 I will not destroy the little village, but hurry, escape to it for I can 00:06:15.684 --> 00:06:17.424 do nothing until you arrive there. 00:06:18.354 --> 00:06:23.064 This explains why that village was known as zoar, which means little place. 00:06:23.949 --> 00:06:27.879 Lot reached the village just as the sun was rising over the horizon. 00:06:28.809 --> 00:06:34.899 Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. 00:06:35.469 --> 00:06:39.129 He utterly destroyed them along with the other cities and villages 00:06:39.129 --> 00:06:43.719 of the plane, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation. 00:06:44.859 --> 00:06:48.489 But lot's wife looked back as she was following behind him, and 00:06:48.489 --> 00:06:50.379 she turned into a pillar of salt. 00:06:51.684 --> 00:06:54.984 Abraham got up early that morning and hurried out to the place where 00:06:54.984 --> 00:06:56.634 he had stood in the Lord's presence. 00:06:57.384 --> 00:07:01.644 He looked out across the plane towards Sodom and Gomorrah and watched 00:07:01.644 --> 00:07:05.454 his columns of smoke rose from the cities, like smoke from a furnace. 00:07:06.924 --> 00:07:12.024 But God had listened to Abraham's request and kept lot safe removing 00:07:12.024 --> 00:07:14.874 him from the disaster that engulfed the cities on the plane. 00:07:16.884 --> 00:07:20.424 Afterward, lot left Zoar because he was afraid of the people there. 00:07:20.904 --> 00:07:23.844 And he went to live in a cave in the mountains with his two daughters. 00:07:24.744 --> 00:07:29.304 One day, the older daughter said to her sister, there are no men left anywhere 00:07:29.304 --> 00:07:34.794 in this entire area, so we can't get married like everyone else, and our father 00:07:34.794 --> 00:07:36.624 will soon be too old to have children. 00:07:37.284 --> 00:07:41.604 Come, let's get him drunk with wine and then we will have sex with him. 00:07:42.039 --> 00:07:45.219 That way we will preserve our family line through our father. 00:07:46.419 --> 00:07:50.379 So that night they got him drunk with wine and the older daughter went in 00:07:50.379 --> 00:07:51.879 and had intercourse with her father. 00:07:52.479 --> 00:07:55.659 He was unaware of her lying down or getting up again. 00:07:56.559 --> 00:08:00.249 The next morning, the older daughter said to her younger sister, I had 00:08:00.249 --> 00:08:01.749 sex with our father last night. 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:04.269 Let's get him drunk with wine again tonight. 00:08:04.599 --> 00:08:08.619 And you go in and have sex with him that way we will preserve our 00:08:08.619 --> 00:08:10.359 family line through our father. 00:08:11.604 --> 00:08:14.934 So that night they got him drunk with wine again, and the younger 00:08:14.934 --> 00:08:19.644 daughter went in and had intercourse with him as before he was unaware of 00:08:19.644 --> 00:08:21.444 her lying down or getting up again. 00:08:22.374 --> 00:08:26.634 As a result, both of Lott's daughters became pregnant by their own father. 00:08:27.684 --> 00:08:31.644 When the older daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Moab. 00:08:32.214 --> 00:08:35.364 He became the ancestor of the nation, now known as the Moabites. 00:08:36.579 --> 00:08:40.599 When the younger daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Ben Amai. 00:08:41.229 --> 00:08:45.099 He became the ancestor of the nation, now known as the Ammonites. 00:08:47.169 --> 00:08:51.369 Abraham moved south to the Negev and lived for a while between Kaddish 00:08:51.369 --> 00:08:56.709 and Shu, and then he moved on to Gira while living there as a foreigner. 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:01.209 Abraham introduced his wife Sarah by saying she is my sister. 00:09:01.809 --> 00:09:06.879 So King Abak of Diar sent for Sarah and had her brought to him at his palace. 00:09:08.259 --> 00:09:13.929 But that night God came to Abak in a dream and told him, you are a dead man for that 00:09:13.929 --> 00:09:15.789 woman you have taken is already married. 00:09:16.539 --> 00:09:18.309 But AB had not slept with her yet. 00:09:18.789 --> 00:09:22.419 So he said, Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation? 00:09:22.944 --> 00:09:26.514 Didn't Abraham tell me she's my sister, and she herself 00:09:26.514 --> 00:09:28.464 said, yes, he is my brother. 00:09:28.914 --> 00:09:30.744 I acted in complete innocence. 00:09:31.014 --> 00:09:33.954 My hands are clean in the dream. 00:09:33.954 --> 00:09:34.884 God responded. 00:09:35.274 --> 00:09:36.984 Yes, I know you are innocent. 00:09:37.464 --> 00:09:41.064 That's why I kept you from sinning against me and why I did not let you touch her. 00:09:41.764 --> 00:09:44.814 The now return the woman to her husband and he will pray 00:09:44.814 --> 00:09:46.614 for you, for he is a prophet. 00:09:47.394 --> 00:09:48.414 Then you will live. 00:09:48.999 --> 00:09:52.149 But if you don't return her to him, you can be sure that you 00:09:52.149 --> 00:09:53.799 and all your people will die. 00:09:54.989 --> 00:09:58.149 Ab Bialek got up early the next morning and quickly called 00:09:58.149 --> 00:09:59.649 all his servants together. 00:10:00.339 --> 00:10:03.129 When he told them what had happened, his men were terrified. 00:10:03.729 --> 00:10:05.619 Then Ab Bialek called for Abraham. 00:10:06.354 --> 00:10:07.614 What have you done to us? 00:10:07.674 --> 00:10:11.154 He demanded, what crime have I committed that deserves treatment 00:10:11.154 --> 00:10:14.904 like this making me and my kingdom guilty of this great sin? 00:10:15.444 --> 00:10:19.794 No one should ever do what you have done, whatever possessed you to do such a thing. 00:10:20.604 --> 00:10:24.744 Abraham replied, I thought this is a godless place. 00:10:25.254 --> 00:10:27.654 They will want my wife and will kill me to get her. 00:10:28.284 --> 00:10:31.074 And she really is my sister for, we both have the same 00:10:31.074 --> 00:10:32.934 father but different mothers. 00:10:33.354 --> 00:10:34.284 And I married her. 00:10:34.944 --> 00:10:38.664 When God called me to leave my father's home and to travel from place to place, 00:10:39.084 --> 00:10:44.274 I told her, do me a favor wherever we go, tell the people that I am your brother. 00:10:45.294 --> 00:10:50.154 Then Aek took some of his sheep and goats cattle and male and female servants, 00:10:50.424 --> 00:10:52.224 and he presented them to Abraham. 00:10:52.764 --> 00:10:54.864 He also returned his wife, Sarah to him. 00:10:55.884 --> 00:11:00.174 Then Abex said, look over my land and choose any place 00:11:00.174 --> 00:11:01.344 where you would like to live. 00:11:02.094 --> 00:11:07.404 And he said to Sarah, look, I'm giving your brother 1000 pieces of silver in 00:11:07.404 --> 00:11:09.234 the presence of all these witnesses. 00:11:09.894 --> 00:11:13.074 This is to compensate you for any wrong I may have done to you. 00:11:13.734 --> 00:11:17.184 This will settle any claim against me and your reputation is cleared. 00:11:19.374 --> 00:11:24.984 Then Abraham prayed to God and God healed Aek, his wife and his female 00:11:24.989 --> 00:11:26.994 servants so they could have children. 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:31.329 For the Lord had caused all the women to be infertile because of what 00:11:31.329 --> 00:11:33.129 happened with Abraham's wife, Sarah. 00:11:35.319 --> 00:11:39.459 The Lord kept his word and did for Sarah exactly what he had promised. 00:11:39.999 --> 00:11:44.649 She became pregnant and she gave birth to a son for Abraham and his old age. 00:11:45.549 --> 00:11:49.839 This happened at just the time God had said it would, and Abraham named their 00:11:49.839 --> 00:11:53.769 son Isaac eight days after Isaac was born. 00:11:54.099 --> 00:11:56.859 Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded. 00:11:57.729 --> 00:12:02.589 Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born, and Sarah declared, 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:04.959 God has brought me laughter. 00:12:05.319 --> 00:12:07.719 All who hear about this will laugh with me. 00:12:08.169 --> 00:12:11.739 Who would've said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse a baby? 00:12:12.579 --> 00:12:18.049 Yet I have given Abraham a son in his old age when Isaac grew 00:12:18.049 --> 00:12:19.629 up and was about to be weaned. 00:12:20.019 --> 00:12:23.229 Abraham prepared a huge feast to celebrate the occasion. 00:12:24.084 --> 00:12:27.594 But Sarah saw Ishmael, the son of Abraham and her Egyptian servant, 00:12:27.594 --> 00:12:30.384 Hagar, making fun of her son, Isaac. 00:12:31.224 --> 00:12:35.904 So she turned to Abraham and demanded get rid of that slave woman and her son. 00:12:36.264 --> 00:12:39.624 He's not going to share the inheritance with my son Isaac. 00:12:39.954 --> 00:12:41.034 I won't have it. 00:12:42.294 --> 00:12:45.924 This upset Abraham very much because Ishmael was his son. 00:12:46.584 --> 00:12:47.994 But God told Abraham. 00:12:48.699 --> 00:12:51.069 Do not be upset over the boy and your servant. 00:12:51.549 --> 00:12:53.559 Do whatever Sarah tells you for. 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:56.529 Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted. 00:12:57.339 --> 00:13:00.309 But I will also make a nation of the descendants of Hagar's 00:13:00.314 --> 00:13:02.589 son because he is your son too. 00:13:03.909 --> 00:13:08.619 So Abraham got up early the next morning, prepared food and a container of water, 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:10.719 and strapped them on Hagar's shoulders. 00:13:11.529 --> 00:13:15.489 Then he sent her away with their son and she wandered aimlessly 00:13:15.489 --> 00:13:17.019 in the wilderness of your Sheba. 00:13:18.129 --> 00:13:21.549 When the water was gone, she put the boy in the shade of a bush. 00:13:22.329 --> 00:13:25.719 Then she went and sat down by herself about a hundred yards away. 00:13:26.499 --> 00:13:31.209 I don't want to watch the boy die, she said as she burst into tears. 00:13:32.079 --> 00:13:36.819 But God heard the boy crying and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven. 00:13:37.449 --> 00:13:38.979 Hagar, what's wrong? 00:13:39.189 --> 00:13:40.389 Do not be afraid. 00:13:40.869 --> 00:13:43.569 God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. 00:13:44.409 --> 00:13:49.269 Go to him and comfort him for I will make a great nation from his descendants. 00:13:50.379 --> 00:13:54.999 Then God opened hagar's eyes and she saw a well full of water. 00:13:55.719 --> 00:13:58.689 She quickly filled her water container and gave the boy a 00:13:58.694 --> 00:14:01.599 drink, and God was with the boy. 00:14:01.689 --> 00:14:06.039 As he grew up in the wilderness, he became a skillful archer and he 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:07.809 settled in the wilderness of perin. 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:11.979 His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt. 00:14:13.569 --> 00:14:17.469 About this time, AB Bialek came with fecal, his army 00:14:17.469 --> 00:14:18.969 commander to visit Abraham. 00:14:19.869 --> 00:14:23.469 God is obviously with you, helping you in everything you do. 00:14:23.529 --> 00:14:28.209 Ab Bialek said, swear to me in God's name that you will never deceive me, 00:14:28.599 --> 00:14:30.939 my children, or any of my descendants. 00:14:31.429 --> 00:14:35.229 I have been loyal to you, so now swear that you'll be loyal 00:14:35.229 --> 00:14:38.109 to me and to this country where you are living as a foreigner. 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:42.549 Abraham replied, yes, I swear to it. 00:14:43.869 --> 00:14:48.369 Then Abraham complained to ab Ek about a well that ab EK's servants had taken 00:14:48.369 --> 00:14:50.139 by force from Abraham's servants. 00:14:51.129 --> 00:14:52.599 This is the first I've heard of it. 00:14:52.959 --> 00:14:53.979 Ab Bialek answered. 00:14:54.489 --> 00:14:56.709 I have no idea who was responsible. 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:59.139 You have never complained about this before. 00:15:00.429 --> 00:15:03.669 Abraham then gave some of his sheep, goats and cattle to a 00:15:03.669 --> 00:15:05.559 bialek, and they made a treaty. 00:15:06.324 --> 00:15:09.894 But Abraham also took seven additional female lambs and 00:15:09.894 --> 00:15:11.364 set them off by themselves. 00:15:12.204 --> 00:15:15.834 Ab Bialek asks, why have you set these seven apart from the others? 00:15:16.584 --> 00:15:20.724 Abraham replied, please accept these seven lambs to show your 00:15:20.724 --> 00:15:22.494 agreement that I dug this well. 00:15:23.424 --> 00:15:28.314 Then he named the place Biers Sheba, which means well of the oath because 00:15:28.314 --> 00:15:29.994 that was where they had sworn the oath. 00:15:31.239 --> 00:15:35.619 After making their covenant at Beersheba, ab Bialek left with Feal, the commander 00:15:35.619 --> 00:15:38.979 of his army, and they returned home to the land of the Philistines. 00:15:40.089 --> 00:15:43.989 Then Abraham planted a tamaris tree at Beersheba, and there he 00:15:43.989 --> 00:15:49.719 worshiped the Lord, the eternal God, and Abraham lived as a foreigner in 00:15:49.719 --> 00:15:52.359 Philistine country for a long time. 00:15:54.669 --> 00:15:57.519 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:15:57.669 --> 00:15:58.869 Thank you for joining us.