Genesis 19:17-29

17And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish.

18And Lot said to them, Not [so], I pray thee, Lord;

19behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.

20Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small: I pray thee, let me escape thither — is it not small? — and my soul shall live.

21And he said to him, Behold, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

22Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.

23The sun rose upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

24And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,

25and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.

26And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27And Abraham rose early in the morning [and went] to the place where he had stood before Jehovah;

28and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from the land as the smoke of a furnace.

29And it came to pass when 1God destroyed the cities of the plain, that 2God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.