Is it true what it says in the Bible Genesis-19 that the daughters of Lot got him drunk to fornicate with him?

Answer 1

Yes, they feared they would never have the opportunity to have kids, since they thought they'd spend the rest of their lives in the desert.

Extra credit project: do a little research into what became of the sons born as a result. Had Lot's daughters kept to themselves, the world would be a much more peaceful place today .......

EDIT: "Marc P" and "MNL," you both miss the point about Lot offering his daughters to the Sodomites. Think for a moment: how likely is it that a mob of angry, aroused gay men will take two women to satisfy themselves? Lot offered them what he KNEW they wouldn't take!

Answer 2

Yes, it is true, but let's see why they did it.

Their fiances stayed in the city of Sodom, not believing that the city would be destroyed. After the city was destroyed (and the girls' mother was killed, too), they reasoned:

Genesis 19 (NIV)
30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. 32 Let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father."

They did not do this out of lust or desire for sex, but out of fear that they had no men to marry and that their family line might die out. As it turned out, they gave birth to the nations of Moab and of the Ammonites. Centuries later, the Moabite woman Ruth believe in Israel's God, married Boaz of Bethlehem, and became the great-grandmother of King David and an ancestor of Jesus of Nazareth.

Addedum: Interesting answer from Marc P. It may be poetic justice that since Lot was willing to let a mob rape his daughters (though the angels protected all the family from the mob), Lot's daughters ended up raping him!

Answer 3

women have been property. The sin of Sodom, exchange into not sodomy, it exchange into inhospitality. the human beings did not be attentive to that the travellers have been angels, and if I bear in mind the textual content cloth properly, it states that they have got been, yet would not point out that Lot knew. yet Lot invited them into his homestead, nagged them even. Now this could have aggravated the human beings of the city, no end. Strangers carried information, and the human beings could have been hungry for the comparable, yet as a exchange of allowing the strangers to spend the night at a tavern, the place they might have shared their information. Lot, badgered them into battling at his homestead. in spite of if that alter into out of altruism, or one-up-manship, the bible would not say, however the reality that he provided his daughters to the city, as a bribe, hence destroying any cost they could have as better halves, shows altruism. So Lot secure 2 strangers from a city that likely, could have allowed them no peace. He upheald the regulations of hospitality, whilst something of the city would not.

Answer 4

Yes.

30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. 32 Let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father."
33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father." 35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

36 So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab [g] ; he is the father of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi [h] ; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.

It is sick, but as it was explained to me and not to excuse it, the daughters thought they "saw/heard" the end of the world when Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed. They were living in a cave and they saw no one for who knows how long. So, they decided to repopulate the Earth and as it says continue their line through Lot.

I cannot tell you why God did not destroy them out right. One could say that the women were ignorant and new know better and daddy dearest was too drunk to know what was going on. Not to mention they could offer up various sin offerings.

In the End you see that the Bible narrative is very graphic and not the normal "only the good stuff gets in" like most history books. Though it is much more than that.

Answer 5

yes. Since their mother turned into a pillar of salt, dad couldn't reproduce with her.........the girls were saved from the soddomites, yet they committed incest with their father. Didn't Lot ask the girls nine months later, who the father of the kids were? And since they were both unwed females, wouldn't that have been a disgrace and abomination in itself, from a religious perspective? Surprised that Lot did not stone the girls to death, like the tradition is for unwed mothers or prostitutes in biblical times. Another thing, didn't they trust God that he would let their line continue, since he helped them escape the fate of Soddom and Gommorah? Seems like the girls were a little too impulsive and did not trust the Most High to continue their family name, why else would God spare them? To prove a point that incest with your father is very shameful and unpleasurable? I would not lie with my father, even if the human race would end...He** NO!! I'd ask God to make a man out of my rib and make him submissive to me, instead!

Answer 6

Here are the verses to support that...

Genesis 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Genesis 19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Genesis 19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Answer 7

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Gen 19:30-36
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.

31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our Father.

35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

Wasn't to fornicate it was to preserve seed because they just came from Sodom, and you know what those men were like.

Lot had no knowledge of it.

Answer 8

That incident was likely just an opportunity for the Hebrews to disparage their neighbors, the Moabites and Ammonites, as having issued from incest--one step up from calling them all bastards. (According to the story, Lot's daughters gave birth to Moab, the father of the Moabites, and Benammi, the father of the Ammonites.)

Answer 9

Yes of course its true, don't you know that the Bible considers incest to be a good fine and noble pursuit, hey, its not like it was two men laying down together.

Answer 10

Yep