16though these three men were in its midst, as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters. aThey alone would be delivered, but the country would be desolate.
a
Genesis 19:29, Ezekiel 18:20
Genesis 19
29
Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that aGod remembered Abraham, and bsent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Ezekiel 18
20
"The person who asins will die. The bson will not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son's iniquity; the crighteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.