Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
The verse records the plan formed by Lot's daughters after fleeing Sodom, and after Lot had left Zoar for a cave in the mountains, to make their father drink wine and lie with him in order to preserve seed of their father. Their conduct came from the evil associations of Sodom, whose moral corruption became interwoven with their character and confused their sense of right and wrong so that they could not distinguish good and evil and sin did not appear sinful to them. The act was the fruit of long dwelling among violence, crime, and vile influence that perverted their morals through corrupt company and blunted moral sensibility, so that the curse of Sodom followed them even to the cave. Lot's only posterity from this act, the Moabites and Ammonites, were vile, idolatrous tribes, rebels against God and bitter enemies of His people.
The verse belongs to the account of Sodom as morally depraved and dangerous to purity, calling young people to guard their eyes, ears, places, and company and to keep as far as possible from such corrupting influences. It belongs to the record of the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah that the cities of the world are becoming like as the world grows worse and worse, and discerning this likeness as a sign of the times warns against making large plants and establishing business interests in the cities. Sodom was destroyed for the same crime that existed in Canaan, after warning, leaving only a few survivors, which makes its judgment a warning against the corrupt practices associated with communion with evil spirits and illustrates that few may be saved even when the majority perish.
The passage from verse 30 to 38 is preserved as a warning and lesson recording Lot's sin and the failures of a man favored by God, showing that even people entrusted with great responsibilities can fall into sin and that Scripture faithfully records their faults so later generations may learn from them. It is part of the record of Lot's sin showing that even a believer can fall into grave wrongdoing, preserved as a warning so others can avoid the same evils and learn their need of God's pardoning mercy. The case stands as a warning to separate from all influences calculated to lead away from God, since remaining among the wicked leaves even the rescued corrupted.
The verse records the plan formed by Lot's daughters after fleeing Sodom, and after Lot had left Zoar for a cave in the mountains, to make their father drink wine and lie with him in order to preserve seed of their father.
Their conduct came from the evil associations of Sodom, whose moral corruption became interwoven with their character and confused their sense of right and wrong so that they could not distinguish good and evil and sin did not appear sinful to them.
The act was the fruit of long dwelling among violence, crime, and vile influence that perverted their morals through corrupt company and blunted moral sensibility, so that the curse of Sodom followed them even to the cave.
Lot's only posterity from this act, the Moabites and Ammonites, were vile, idolatrous tribes, rebels against God and bitter enemies of His people.
The verse belongs to the account of Sodom as morally depraved and dangerous to purity, calling young people to guard their eyes, ears, places, and company and to keep as far as possible from such corrupting influences.
It belongs to the record of the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah that the cities of the world are becoming like as the world grows worse and worse, and discerning this likeness as a sign of the times warns against making large plants and establishing business interests in the cities.
Sodom was destroyed for the same crime that existed in Canaan, after warning, leaving only a few survivors, which makes its judgment a warning against the corrupt practices associated with communion with evil spirits and illustrates that few may be saved even when the majority perish.
The passage from verse 30 to 38 is preserved as a warning and lesson recording Lot's sin and the failures of a man favored by God, showing that even people entrusted with great responsibilities can fall into sin and that Scripture faithfully records their faults so later generations may learn from them.
It is part of the record of Lot's sin showing that even a believer can fall into grave wrongdoing, preserved as a warning so others can avoid the same evils and learn their need of God's pardoning mercy.
The case stands as a warning to separate from all influences calculated to lead away from God, since remaining among the wicked leaves even the rescued corrupted.