Genesis 19:17-22

17And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away."

18And Lot said to them, "Oh, no, my lords.

19Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.

20Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!"

21He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

22Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.