Thematic Bible: Vision a source of temptation


Thematic Bible



And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.


When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.



Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;




Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain