Genesis 19:4 Cross References - BBE

⁴ But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;

¹³ Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

²⁰ And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

² And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

² Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

¹⁶ For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

¹⁸ A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

¹ Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness. ² And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false. ³ O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back. ⁴ Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God. ⁵ I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands. ⁶ And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

³¹ The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

³ Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

²⁰ Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death. ²¹ But the ruler made answer and said to them, Which of the two is it your pleasure that I let go free? And they said, Barabbas. ²² Pilate says to them, What, then, am I to do with Jesus, who is named Christ? They all say, Let him be put to death on the cross. ²³ And he said, Why, what evil has he done? But they gave loud cries, saying, To the cross with him! ²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible. ²⁵ And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

¹⁵ Their feet are quick in running after blood;