And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you came unto Zoar. Then Lot chose all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. read more. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth outside, that he said, Escape for your life; look not behind you, neither stay in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan,

And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;

And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

And this report of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about.