Lot and his Daughters

Question: I like to pose a question about the overall idea of the text.

Genesis 19:30–38 ESV

Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose. The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

Remember from last week that the angel told them to go to another place but they picked somewhere that was closer to Sodom, closer to the place of sin

Genesis 19:17–21 ESV

And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.” And Lot said to them, “Oh, no, my lords. Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die. Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!” He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Notes:

The daughters are complaining that they dont have anyone to marry/have children with. They picked their location and did not listen to the angels direction.

Question to the group

Can you think of a situation in your life when you didnt listen to God direction and it backfired?

They did not have to remain there and could have continued to move, they chose sin over obedience.

If they would have listened they may have been blessed with men that they could marry.

Question to the group: Where did the daughters even get the idea that sleeping with their father was ok?

This sin more than likely was influenced by their stay in Sodom

Question to the group:

What does this mean for where and with whom we choose to surround ourselves with?

Commentary

Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary Epilogue: Lot and His Daughters (19:30–38)

19:30–38. Epilogue: Lot and his daughters

The restlessness of fear is classically illustrated by Lot’s attitude to Zoar. Fear had driven him there (19ff.); fear blindly drove him out again. It had brushed aside the call and now the pledge of God (17, 21).

Lot’s cave (30) is a bitter sequel to the house (3) which had dwarfed his uncle’s tent, and the little trio is pathetic after the teeming crowd of 13:5ff. The end of choosing to carve out his career was to lose even the custody of his body. His legacy, Moab and Ammon (37f.), was destined to provide the worst carnal seduction in the history of Israel (that of Baal-Peor, Num. 25) and the cruellest religious perversion (that of Molech, Lev. 18:21). So much stemmed from a self-regarding choice (13:10ff.) and persistence in it.