Genesis 19:19-30

19Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your compassion, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the 1mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die; 20now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) 2so that my life may be saved.” 21And he said to him, “Behold, I grant you this 3request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken. 22Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the town was named 45Zoar.

23The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24Then the Lord 6rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of heaven, 25and 7He overthrew those cities, and all the surrounding area, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26But 8Lot’s wife, from behind him, 9looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27Now Abraham got up early in the morning and went to 10the place where he had stood before the Lord; 28and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the surrounding area; and 11behold, he saw 12the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a 13furnace.

29So it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the surrounding area, that 14God remembered Abraham, and 15sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

30Now Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and 16stayed in the 17mountains, because he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.