At dawn the angels tried to make Lot hurry. "Quick!" they said. "Take your wife and your two daughters and get out, so that you will not lose your lives when the city is destroyed."

Then one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed."

Some of the king's officials were afraid because of what the LORD had said, and they brought their slaves and animals indoors for shelter.

Others, however, paid no attention to the LORD's warning and left their slaves and animals out in the open.

Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

People of Benjamin, run for safety! Escape from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa and build a signal fire in Beth Haccherem. Disaster and destruction are about to come from the north.

The Babylonian army retreated from Jerusalem because the Egyptian army was approaching.

So I started to leave Jerusalem and go to the territory of Benjamin to take possession of my share of the family property.

Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills; those who are in the city must leave, and those who are out in the country must not go into the city.

For those will be 'The Days of Punishment,' to make come true all that the Scriptures say.

It was faith that made Noah hear God's warnings about things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a boat in which he and his family were saved. As a result, the world was condemned, and Noah received from God the righteousness that comes by faith.