Genesis 19:17-22

17When they had brought them outside, they said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

18But Lot said to them, “No, please, Lord!

19Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.

20Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”

21“Very well,” he replied, “I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.

22Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)