Reading Genesis chapter 19, I see for the first time that Lot was a judge. He was a leader of the cesspool that was Sodom. There are a couple of clues. One, leaders (judges) sat at the gates. Others did not.
Gen 19:1
(1) And the two angels came into Sodom at evening. And Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw, and he rose up to meet them and bowed his face to the earth.
Secondly, the townsfolk told him this:
Gen 19:9
(9) And they said, Stand back! And they said, This one came in to visit, and must he always judge? Now we will do evil to you rather than to them. And they pressed on the man, upon Lot violently, and drew near to break the door.
So Lot came as a visitor but became a leader. Perhaps he was trying to change a bad situation. Regardless, his association nearly cost him everything - and it did cost him his wife.
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