Lot:
(Heb. goral, a "pebble"), a small stone used in casting lots (Num 33:54; Jon 1:7). The lot was always resorted to by the Hebrews with strictest reference to the interposition of God, and as a method of ascertaining the divine will (Pro 16:33), and in serious cases of doubt (Est 3:7). Thus the lot was used at the division of the land of Canaan among the serveral tribes (Num 26:55; 34:13), at the detection of Achan (Jos 7:14,18), the election of Saul to be king (1Sa 10:20,21), the distribution of the priestly offices of the temple service (1Ch 24:3,5,19; Luk 1:9), and over the two goats at the feast of Atonement (Lev 16:8). Matthias, who was "numbered with the eleven" (Act 1:24-26), was chosen by lot.
This word also denotes a portion or an inheritance (Jos 15:1; Psa 125:3; Isa 17:4), and a destiny, as assigned by God (Psa 16:5; Dan 12:13).
Lot, (Heb. lot), a covering; veil, the son of Haran, and nephew of Abraham (Gen 11:27). On the death of his father, he was left in charge of his grandfather Terah (31), after whose death he accompanied his uncle Abraham into Canaan (12:5), thence into Egypt (10), and back again to Canaan (13:1). After this he separated from him and settled in Sodom (13:5-13). There his righteous soul was "vexed" from day to day (2Pe 2:7), and he had great cause to regret this act. Not many years after the separation he was taken captive by Chedorlaomer, and was rescued by Abraham (Gen 14). At length, when the judgment of God descended on the guilty cities of the plain (Gen 19:1-20), Lot was miraculously delivered. When fleeing from the doomed city his wife "looked back from behind him, and became a pillar of salt." There is to this day a peculiar crag at the south end of the Dead Sea, near Kumran, which the Arabs call Bint Sheik Lot, i.e., Lot's wife. It is "a tall, isolated needle of rock, which really does bear a curious resemblance to an Arab woman with a child upon her shoulder." From the words of warning in Luke 17:32, "Remember Lot's wife," it would seem as if she had gone back, or tarried so long behind in the desire to save some of her goods, that she became involved in the destruction which fell on the city, and became a stiffened corpse, fixed for a time in the saline incrustations. She became "a pillar of salt", i.e., as some think, of asphalt. (See SALT.)
Lot and his daughters sought refuge first in Zoar, and then, fearing to remain there longer, retired to a cave in the neighbouring mountains (Gen 19:30). Lot has recently been connected with the people called on the Egyptian monuments Rotanu or Lotanu, who is supposed to have been the hero of the Edomite tribe Lotan.
Lot:
Lotan, wrapt up; hidden; covered; myrrh; rosin
Lot: Portion; Destiny; Fate.
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my LOT. (Psalm 16:5)
Lot: 1. Feast Of
See PURIM
Lot: 2. The Son of Haran
Accompanies Terah from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran,
Gen 11:31.
Migrates with Abraham to the land of Canaan,
Gen 12:4.
Accompanies Abraham to Egypt; returns with him to Beth-el,
Gen 13:1-3.
Rich in flocks, and herds, and servants; separates from Abraham, and locates in Sodom,
Gen 13:5-14.
Taken captive by Chedorlaomer; rescued by Abraham,
Gen 14:1-16.
Providentially saved from destruction in Sodom,
Gen 19; Luk 17:28, 29.
Disobediently protests against going to the mountains, and chooses Zoar,
Gen 19:17-22.
His wife disobediently yearns after Sodom, and becomes a pillar of salt,
Gen 19:26; Luk 17:32.
Commits incest with his daughters,
Gen 19:30-38.
Descendants of,
see AMMONITES; MOABITES
Lot:
(veil or covering) the son of Haran, and therefore the nephew of Abraham (Genesis 11:27, 31). (B.C. before 1926‐1898.) His sisters were Milcah the wife of Nahor, and Iscah, by some identified with Sarah. Haran died before the emigration of Terah and his family from Ur of the Chaldees, verse 28, and Lot was therefore born there. He removed with the rest of his kindred to Charran, and again subsequently with Abraham and Sarai to Canaan (Genesis 12:4-5). With them he took refuge in Egypt from a famine, and with them returned, first to the "south," (Genesis 13:1) and then to their original settlement between Bethel and Ai (Genesis 13:3-4). But the pastures of the hills of Bethel, which had with ease contained the two strangers on their first arrival, were not able any longer to bear them, so much had their possessions of sheep, goats and cattle increased. Accordingly they separated, Lot choosing the fertile plain of the Jordan, and advancing as far as Sodom (Genesis 13:10-14). The next occurrence in the life of Lot is his capture by the four kings of the east and his rescue by Abram (Genesis 13:14). The last scene preserved to us in the history of Lot is too well known to need repetition. He was still living in Sodom (Genesis 19:1). … from which he was rescued by some angels on the day of its final overthrow. he fled first to Zoar, in which he found a temporary refuge during the destruction of the other cities of the plain. Where this place was situated is not known with certainty. SEE [ZOAR]. The end of Lot's wife is commonly treated as one of the difficulties of the Bible; but it surely need not be so. It cannot be necessary to create the details of the story where none are given. On these points the record is silent. The value and the significance of the story to us are contained in the allusion of Christ (Luke 17:32). Later ages have not been satisfied so to leave the matter, but have insisted on identifying the "pillar" with some one of the fleeting forms which the perishable rock of the south end of the Dead Sea is constantly assuming in its process of decomposition and liquefaction. From the incestuous intercourse between Lot and his two daughters sprang the nations of Moab and Ammon.
Salt:
used to season food (Job 6:6), and mixed with the fodder of cattle (Isa 30:24, "clean; " in marg. of R.V. "salted"). All meat-offerings were seasoned with salt (Lev 2:13). To eat salt with one is to partake of his hospitality, to derive subsistence from him; and hence he who did so was bound to look after his host's interests (Ezr 4:14, "We have maintenance from the king's palace; " A.V. marg., "We are salted with the salt of the palace; " R.V., "We eat the salt of the palace").
A "covenant of salt" (Num 18:19; 2Ch 13:5) was a covenant of perpetual obligation. New-born children were rubbed with salt (Eze 16:4). Disciples are likened unto salt, with reference to its cleansing and preserving uses (Mat 5:13). When Abimelech took the city of Shechem, he sowed the place with salt, that it might always remain a barren soil (Jdg 9:45). Sir Lyon Playfair argues, on scientific grounds, that under the generic name of "salt," in certain passages, we are to understand petroleum or its residue asphalt. Thus in Gen 19:26 he would read "pillar of asphalt;" and in Mat 5:13, instead of "salt," "petroleum," which loses its essence by exposure, as salt does not, and becomes asphalt, with which pavements were made.
The Jebel Usdum, to the south of the Dead Sea, is a mountain of rock salt about 7 miles long and from 2 to 3 miles wide and some hundreds of feet high.
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