¹⁷After they brought them out of the city, one of the men said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Run to the mountains, or you will be destroyed.”

¹⁸But Lot said to one of them, “Sir, please don’t force me to go so far! ¹⁹You have been merciful and kind to me and have saved my life. But I can’t run to the mountains. The disaster will catch me, and I will die. ²⁰Look, that little town over there is not too far away. Let me run there. It’s really just a little town, and I’ll be safe there.”

²¹The angel said to Lot, “Very well, I will allow you to do this also. I will not destroy that town. ²²But run there fast, because I cannot destroy Sodom until you are safely in that town.” (That town is named Zoar, ⁿ because it is little.)

Sodom and Gomorrah Are Destroyed

²³The sun had already come up when Lot entered Zoar. ²⁴The Lord sent a rain of burning sulfur down from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah ²⁵and destroyed those cities. He also destroyed the whole Jordan Valley, everyone living in the cities, and even all the plants.

²⁶At that point Lot’s wife looked back. When she did, she became a pillar of salt.

Read in Logos

Genesis 19:26: But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Footnotes

nZoar This name sounds like the Hebrew word for “little.”