“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.”
Lot leaves Zoar and settles in the mountains with his two daughters, living in a cave. He had been afraid to stay in Zoar. The irony is complete: Lot negotiated to avoid the mountains and stay in Zoar, and ends up in the mountains anyway, in a cave. The human plan that seemed more manageable than the divine instruction produces the very outcome Lot was trying to avoid — and in a worse form. The cave in the mountains is not the settled security of Zoar; it is the homeless refugeehood that the mountains represented to Lot when he asked for the town. Proverbs 19:21 states that many plans are in a person's heart, but the LORD's purpose prevails. The application: the thing you negotiate away from the divine instruction toward tends to fail to provide what you needed from it, and you end up in the mountains anyway — in a cave.
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