Genesis 19:30
And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Lot went up out of Zoar with his two daughters because he feared to dwell there, and settled with them in a cave in the mountain. He remained only a short time in Zoar, for iniquity prevailed there as in Sodom and he feared to remain lest the city be destroyed, and Zoar was consumed not long afterward as God had purposed. His flight to the mountains was according to the angels' directions after his wife was turned to salt for looking back, and he saved only himself and his two daughters though all had been warned, showing that only a few escaped the destruction of Sodom.
The verse belongs to the account of Sodom's destruction, which stands as a warning, for Sodom was consumed for the same crime found among the Canaanites. When he reached the cave he was stripped of all for which he had subjected his family to the influences of a wicked city. The curse of Sodom followed him there in the sinful conduct of his daughters after leaving Sodom, which resulted from wicked associations while there. Their moral corruption from sojourning in Sodom had become so interwoven with their character that their sense of right and wrong was confused, they could not distinguish between good and evil, and sin did not appear as sin to them.
His only posterity, the Moabites and Ammonites, were vile, idolatrous tribes, rebels against God and bitter enemies of His people. The passage records Lot's sin as part of the Bible's faithful account of the failures of people who served God and of believers. The record warns readers against wrongdoing and to avoid recorded evils, and shows that even those favored by God and even believers have faults and may fall into temptation.
Their struggles and recovery through God's grace encourage others to renew their struggle against sin and to persevere, and the record of sin and its consequences teaches that God punishes wrongdoing, pities the guilty, and forgives the repentant. The case warns all who wish to live godly lives to separate themselves from all influences calculated to lead them away from God, and invokes Sodom as a warning that young people should be kept away from depraved places and associations to guard their purity. Standing in the record of Genesis 18 and 19, the verse calls for seeking the Lord earnestly and taking a decided stand in obedience to all of God's requirements instead of being only professed believers in the truth, a call that leads to confession of sin and earnest prayer under the softening and subduing power of the Spirit of God on the heart.