Genesis 19:17–29

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.

²⁷And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where ^lhe had stood before the Lord. ²⁸Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, ^mthe smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace. ²⁹And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God ⁿremembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.