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While writing the book on Abraham for the Bible Biography Series, Butler realized the material found in Genesis 19, and the story of Lot, deserved their own book-length treatment. Butler examines Lot in the following chapters: • Development of Lot • Departure from Abraham • Deportation of Sodom • Delegation from Heaven • Debauchery of Sodom • Declaration about Sodom • ...

condition. Hence, the world will not evaluate Lot’s life as negatively—or as correctly—as the godly will. To study this departure of Lot from Abraham, we will consider the causes of the departure (vv. 2–8), the counsel for the departure (vv. 8, 9), and the choice in the departure (vv. 10–13). There were two causes that mandated Lot’s departure from Abraham. These two causes were substance and strife. The profuseness of substance was the primary cause. The presence of
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