Lot

28"It was the same in the days of Lot. People ate and drank. They bought and sold. They planted and built."

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

NoteLot lived long ago too. He was the nephew of Abraham. Lot moved to a city called Sodom and lived there.

29"But on the day Lot left the city of Sodom, fire and burning sulfur rained down from the sky. It destroyed them all."

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

NoteThe King James says "brimstone." That is an old word for sulfur. Sulfur is a yellow rock that burns with a strong smell.

30"That is how it will be on the day the Son of Man is shown."

Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

31"On that day, do not go back for your things. If you are up on the roof, do not go down into the house. If you are out in the field, do not go back home."

In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

NoteRoofs there were flat, like an extra floor. People sat and slept up there on warm nights. Stairs on the outside went up to the roof. "His stuff" means the things he owns.

32"Remember Lot's wife!"

Remember Lot’s wife.

NoteWhen Lot's family ran from Sodom, they were told not to look back. His wife looked back anyway. She turned into a pillar of salt.

6God turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes. He judged them and wiped them out. They stand as a warning to people who live wicked lives later on.

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

NoteSodom and Gomorrah were two cities in an old Bible story. The people there were cruel, and God destroyed the cities. The King James word "ensample" just means example.

7God rescued Lot, who was a good man. The people around Lot lived filthy lives, and it wore him down.

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

NoteLot was Abraham's nephew, and he lived in Sodom. In 1611 the word "conversation" meant the way a person lived. It did not mean talking.

8(That good man lived among them day after day. He saw and heard the evil things they did. It hurt his good heart every single day.)

(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

NoteThe King James word "vexed" means worn down and hurt inside. Lot was not angry. He was sad and tired every day.

9So the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from hard times. He also knows how to hold guilty people for punishment on the day of judgment.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

NoteIn the King James, "temptations" here means hard times and troubles. "Godly" means people who love God and try to live his way.