Genesis 19:17–26

¹⁷So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that ²he said, ^a“Escape for your life! ^bDo not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape ^cto the mountains, lest you be ³destroyed.”

¹⁸Then Lot said to them, “Please, ^dno, my lords! ¹⁹Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die. ²⁰See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.”

²¹And he said to him, “See, ^eI have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. ²²Hurry, escape there. For ^fI cannot do anything until you arrive there.”

Therefore ^gthe name of the city was called ⁴Zoar.

²³The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. ²⁴Then the Lord rained ^hbrimstone and ⁱfire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. ²⁵So He ⁵overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and ^jwhat grew on the ground.

²⁶But his wife looked back behind him, and she became ^ka pillar of salt.