Scripture Queries and Answers: Number of Lot's Daughters; Pharoah Perished in the Red Sea?

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Genesis 19:14‑16; Psalm 136:15 • 1 min. read • grade level: 9

Q.-Gen. 19:14-16¹⁴And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. ¹⁵And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. ¹⁶And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. (Genesis 19:14‑16). Is it correct, as often assumed, that Lot had only two daughters of sorrowful memory?—A Disciple.

A -It would seem that besides the two maiden daughters in his house Lot had others with his sons-in-law outside, whom he sought in vain to save from the doomed city. In the “Introductory Lectures on the Pentateuch” this oversight is said to have been made. That the confusion has been often made by excellent men is of no weight against the simple force of the word.

Q.-Ex. 14, 15. Is there substantial ground for doubting that the Pharaoh of Exodus, Menephthah, perished with his host in the Red Sea? I am aware that Sir G. Wilkinson (Ancient Egypt, i. 54) so thought, and that the Rev. Professor Rawlinson follows him (Hist. of Anc. Eg., ii. 336).—A Disciple

A.-We are not limited to the writings of Moses. The Psalms are no less divinely inspired. If the language is only general in Exodus, Psa. 136:15¹⁵But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. (Psalm 136:15) is explicit, that Jehovah “overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea.”

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