Genesis 19

Two angels (where's the third?) come to the gates of Sodom, where Lot is.  Lot offers them his hospitality and asks them to stay in his house, then leave first thing in the morning.  They demur, saying they wish to sleep in the street.  Lot convinces them to stay with him.

Every man in Sodom, young and old, surround Lot's house and insist Lot send out his guests so that they can rape them.  Lot, contending for father of the year, helpfully offers his virgin daughters to the crowd to do with as they please.  The crowd doesn't want young virgin women and are set on gang raping angels.  They try to break down Lot's door, and threaten to do worse to him than what they planned for the angels.  The angels blind the men closest to the door and pull Lot in.

The angels tell Lot to warn his family and get out first thing in the morning.  Lot goes to warn his future sons-in-law (wonder where they were when Lot was offering up their brides), who think Lot is jesting and ignore him.  In the morning, Lot dawdles leaving and the men of the city attempt to take Lot and his family, but God takes mercy on him and gets him out of the city, but also instructs him not to look back.  The first thing Lot's wife does is, of course, looks back and is turned into a pillar of salt.  First Eve, now Lot's wife, womens got to start obeying the Lord, it seems.

God tells Lot to go hide in the hills, but Lot begs to be allowed to go to a small city, Zo'ar, which God allows.  God sends fire and brimstone to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and the fertile valley is transformed into a wasteland.  Lot and his daughters hide in a cave.

Lot's daughters believe they are the only people left in the world, not too odd of a thought having witnessed what just happened to the entire valley, and desire children.  They settle on the weird plan of getting their father black out drunk and raping him.  They both do on consecutive nights, and I do want to point out it was a good thing that in their haste to flee Sodom, it's a good thing they brought plenty of wine.  Woo hoo, party like it's the end of the world!

In any event, both daughters become pregnant and their sons go on to found the Moabite and Ammonite tribes.

Bad stuff in this chapter:  God commits another genocide, Lot offers innocents to gang rape, threatened gang rape (which is somehow worse than what Lot offered), looking back, excessive drinking and finally incest/rape for an action packed story.  No one, including God, comes out particularly good in this one.

GOD'S COMMANDMENT(S):

Genesis 19:5-9 - Not an explicit commandment, but threatening homosexual gang rape and attempted breaking and entering gets you blinded and later destroyed by fire and brimstone (Genesis 5:24).

Genesis 19:26 - Looking at a burning city after being instructed not to yields turned into salt.

Genesis 19:33 - Getting your father drunk and raping him is unpunished, except that your weirdness is retold in the most popular book in the world for the next three to five thousand years at the least.  

DIFFICULTY OF FOLLOWING COMMANDMENT(S):

Most of us are not tempted by threatening gang rape, much less breaking into an abode to do.  Should be pretty simple to avoid this one.

GOD'S DEATH TOLL THIS CHAPTER:

The entire population of Sodom and Gomorrah, save Lot and his two daughters.
 
GOD'S RUNNING DEATH TOLL:

 The entire population of Sodom and Gomorrah, save Lot and his two daughters.