Gen 13:10 | TNotes | STEP | 13:10 What appealed to Lot would be short-lived. In the garden of the Lord , Adam and Eve succumbed to their craving for what they saw; Israel was later enslaved in Egypt . Sodom and Gomorrah are reminders of putting intense desires ahead of obedience to God (3:5-6 ; see 1 Jn 2:16 ). • Zoar was a small town in the plain to which Lot and his daughters later fled (19:18-22 ); it was previously called Bela (14:2 ).

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‏ Genesis 13:10

13:10 ^a What appealed to Lot would be short-lived. In the garden of the Lord, Adam and Eve succumbed to their craving for what they saw; Israel was later enslaved in Egypt. Sodom and Gomorrah are reminders of putting intense desires ahead of obedience to God (3:5-6 ^b; see 1 Jn 2:16 ^c).

• Zoar was a small town in the plain to which Lot and his daughters later fled (19:18-22 ^d); it was previously called Bela (14:2 ^e).